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A HISTORY 



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PROCEEDINGS IN THE (JITY OF NEW ORLEANS, 



ON THK OCCASION OK THK 



FUNKRAL CKRKMONIIiS 



IN HONOK OK 



JAMES ABRAM GARFIELD, 



LATE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, 



WHICH TOOK PLAUK ON MONDAY, SKPTKMBEll 26th, 1881. 



Compiled and Published under the Authority of the General Committee of Arrangements- 
Hon. Jos, A, Shakspeare, Mayor of the City of New Orleans, Chairman. 



• NEW ORLEANS : 

A. "W. Hyatt, Stationer and Printer, 78 Camp Street>-20,982, 
i88i. 



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PREFACE 



This Volume is designed to preserve, in a connected and durable 
form, not onlj^ a thoroughly comprehensive but a minutely accurate 
account of the proceedings in the City of New Orleans : first, on the 
receipt of the news, Saturday afternoon, July 2d, of the attempted ' 
assassination of President Garfield, and, next, on and after the 
announcement of his death at Long Branch, on Monday night, Sep- 
tember 18th, 1881. 

It was the duty of the Compiler, — when connected with the editorial 
staff of the New Orleans Picayune in 1852, — to prepare for publication 
for the City Authorities, a Volume of similar character to this, 
describing the imposing funeral ceremonies held here, in December 
of that year, in honor of the great Triumvii*ate, Calhoun, Clay and 
Webster, — the latter then but recently departed. 

The peculiar and vivid interest created by the many local and 
personal details in that work, when last September, after a lapse of 
twenty-nine years, it was resurrected from the city archives by the 
Authorities for purposes of reference and precedents, — indicated the 
plan to be pursued, with even greater attention to details of facts and 
individuals, in preparing the present volume. 

At all'events, this work will have a large circulation both at home 
and abroad ; and in hundreds of New Orleans households it will be 
preserved as the only memento of a memorable event in the history 
of our City. 

A memorable^event indeed, — for, with the exception of Cleveland, 
New Orleans'was the only city in the United States that tendered to 
the dead President's memory so magnificent a public demonstration 
of sincere regret 'and^ profound respect as that hereinafter chronicled. 

These grand and solemn Obsequies expressed not only the deep 
sorrow of our People for their President's untimely and cruel decease, 
but their genuine admiration for his high character and eminent 



4 PKEFACE. 

nliilitics and their tliorough appreciation of his patriotic services to the 
country tit large. 

These Obsequies, in addition, were a heartfelt tribute from the 
Men and Women of the Crescent City to the memory of one who had 
ever shown himself so true and manly in his friendships, so tender 
and devoted in his family circle. And, finally, these Obsequies were 
a respectful testimonial of the deepest sympathy by the People of 
New Orleans for the stricken survivors of the bereaved household. 

The lesson to be derived from the remarkable career and the 
remarkable death of the late President, is multiform, and cannot be 
discussed here. One of its most serious teachings may be rightly set 
forth, liowever, in the following paragraphs that closed the Preface of 
the "Calhoun, Clay and Webster Memorial Volume," to which refer- 
ence has been made : 

" In the contemplation of these unstinted honors to the memory 
" of the departed statesmen, not only will many an obscure youth 
" find stimulants to perseverance in the path of public duty, but living 
" statesmen, yet in the heat of conflict, may find in them the consoling 
" assurance of a just appreciation when they, too, shall have emerged 
" into an atmosphere cleared of the partisan mists of the day. To 
" that serene region, Death raises them at once. There the prejudices 
" of the time vanish, and the instincts of justice, gratitude and rever- 
" ence resume their sway. 

" The Dead have no longer partisans or enemies among their 
" countrymen. We all join to do honor to their memory— to claim an 
" equal share in their renown— to mourn together over their loss— and 
" to unite as kindred to plant laurels upon their tombs." 

True and to the point in 1852, these reflections are equally true and 
applicable now ; and they will, therefore, appropriately close this 
Preface. The People of New Orleans united, as they have not been 
united in a quarter of a century, to do honor to the memory of James 
A. Garfield: to mourn together over his loss : and to plant laurels 
and immorteUcs on his tomb. 

EDWARD C. WHARTON, Journalist and Compiler. 
AL. DONNAUD, JournaliM and Publisher. 

New Oki.kaxs, December, 1881. 



MORNING AND EVENING. 



Saturday, July 2d, A. D. 1881, will ever be a memorable, a sadly 
memorable day, in the annals of the great Republic. 

The day opened with joyous auspices for its people and their new 
Chief Executive — for the former in cheerful preparation for the national 
holiday — for the Executive, in glad anticipation of his first genuine 
respite from the onerous labors that, for four months, had almost trans- 
formed him into a prisoner of State. 

The day closed with the Executive stricken down by the murderous 
shots of a cold-blooded assassin ; and the people, horror-stricken, breath- 
lessly awaiting the announcement of his death. 

No more sudden and overwhelming catastrophe could have been 
devised by the gloomy Fates of Greek Tragedy to illustrate the uncer- 
tainty of human hopes, the instability of human joys. 

Assuredly, the nation's indignation and sorrow would have been 
thoroughly aroused, no matter who had been its ^Chief Executive and 
the assassin's victim. But this new occupant of the Presidential man- 
sion—even when but just emerged from the smoke and flame and din 
of the tremendous electoral battle — had singularly won upon the deeper 
sympathies of the people. And that by no arts of the shrewd and 
practiced demagogue, but by the simple, genuine merits of the man, 
standing fearlessly before his fellow-men, and willing to be judged by 
his life-history. 

It was, indeed, one that appealed to the best feelings of every 
American citizen. They all, even to the poorest and humblest, now 
knew that he was completely one of themselves. They all now knew 
that he had risen from the humblest to the proudest position in the 
Republic by his own indomitable energy, industry and perseverance. 
They all knew that, even when a lad, struggling with poverty, his 
brain was fired and his heart nerved by the noble determination to 
rise to the highest plane of intellectual power and distinction. And 
that grand work successfully achieved, they knew, too, that, at the 
call of duty, he had abandoned the peaceful academic shades for the 



HISTORY OF THE 



perils of war and the no lesser perils of public life ; and had in them, 
too, reached the highest positions by the same qualities of mind and 
heart that had crowned his student life with triumph. 

In. liis public career, also, the people saw clearly that he was 
inspired by tliat sincere love of country, which in their eyes condones 
for a host of mistakes and errors, and lacking which the most brilliant 
public man lacks the cbiefest jewel of his crown. 

So true and powerful was the hold this manly life-story had taken 
upon the popular heart, that it speedily won for the new President 
tlie genuine good-will of the numerous and stalwart legions who had 
fought so valiantly to give the victory to his honored opponent. For 
they had served under too noble a chieftain not to recognize the lofty 
traits of his succei«sful rival. And, in paying him the tribute of sin- 
cere regard, they felt they were in no wise derogating from the admi- 
ration and respect still cheerfully rendered to their former leader. In 
this they but followed that leader's own magnanimous example. 

And, therefore it was that the People of the United States said, as 
with one voice : " This is truly a representative American and worthy 
to be our President : let us honor and trust him !" 

That they had not mistaken him, nor he them, was shown in his 
Inaugural. In a brief passage, dignified and feeling, he heralded for 
his Administration what the whole country had long yearned for : the 
definite closing of the Temjile of Janus, and a speedy return once more 
to the pleasant paths of Peace. 

In that one utterance the true patriot as well as the wise states- 
man was distinctly presented. 

He had already gained his fellow-citizens' good-will. Now he 
conquered their confidence. Ere many minutes, he won his way com- 
pletely to their kindliest regard. When turning suddenly from the 
crowd of dignitaries, eager to congratulate him — regardless of the 
multitude and their applause— in utter defiance of ceremonial and 
etiquette— he joyously kissed his proud old mother and happy wife, 
a thrill ran through that vast assembly that did not cease vibrating 
until it had touched the heart of the whole nation. 

VJt_was the first of those little scenes— so natural, so spontaneous— 
which ere long were to reveal to the American people the inner life of 
their President and his family: simple, and true, and loving— finding 



KIM'.KAL ('KKKM*>Mi;s. < 

in iis i>iivi(y, its coiistMiti-y, its niornl els'N-iil i<iii, I he s) rciii;! !i to i|ni.'liy. 
(•licti-fnlly, cDuni-reously iMHliirc tlic most |t;iiii!'iil o\ jili (inlcals 1<> 
wliicii sucii ili'votcd aircctioii rculd he siilpJi'c(<Mi. 

riic m-\v Prcsidi'iil liad Irccii sdi-d.y tried, in tiic I. rid" jicriod siiicr 
his inaii.'^uralioii. In <tiiicic suwession Dcalii had snalclud away luar 
and doar rclativis He iuad(> no conij^hnid. at irast (o the world ; hiil 
d()vd»tli-ss ]\v oftf!) asi<cd lnnis(.-if, as did his vciicraii'.r inoldu'r " ! 
wonder who next will Ir' taken !" H>' htul no reas-m (o I'eai' lor him- 
self, tor lie was in vii^orous health ; hut lu' niiulil lie in .-onslan! dread 
lor tii<- invalid, his ehiidi-en's n-.otln'r. lor whoso liralt h a;;d c-oiiilori , 
he soon afterwards said, wlieii himself si rlclx-n down, 'he would 
clieerfuUy si'ive his own life." 

Then, loo, in the )ui(lst of jirejaralion of im'iisnrt.- of piiMii- ii"lie\- 
nay, some of them aetualiy in ojieraiion !iuil ciie.Tid the [Kople at 
lar.;;e with i)roniise ()l' wide and salutary reform. Ids Adndnistiation 
was siiddeidy and velienieidiy attacked from a (|narter where tin' least 
e:\jieeted. Ikised, it eanpot l>e donoted, on lione.st diiierenccsMl' o(tinion, 
this assault was, neveitheless, the Jiiore ein'oarrassinu thai it I'nianaleti 
from a powerful section of the very parly to which the i'i\sideid owed 
his election. 

Thougli tJie attack had h<'en Avardicd o(i' witii ski!!, (act and, nerve. 
Die liostile array .still threatened; and the i're.-ident could not hut be 
grieved, if not mortified, at so untoward a condition of allairs. Still, 
on the other hand, he could not but be cheered by the many evid«.nces 
he received of the popular good will and confidence: and so, on that 
bright morning of the 2d of July, he 2u-ei)ari'd to take hi.s first holiday. 
Turning his back upon the scene of suoh incessant and liara.ssing 
labor, he was to make a pleasure excursion of two weeks' duration 
through the New Euglaud States. His invalid wife and. his young 
daughter, then at Long Branch, were to join him and Ids two elder 
sons at New York. He had kindly invited the members ol liis Cabinet 
and their wives, and several other intimate friends to accompany him ; 
and a more joyous party could not be gathered together than assemlile<l 
that morning at the railroad depot in Washington, and cheerfully 
awaited their chief's arrival. 



mSTOKV OF THE 



VlUi OLD CONTINENTAL. 



'IMic new l''.xi'culivi' litid several good reusous, it is to bo presunu'd, lor 
st'k'i/tiii^- .New i'jiglaiid as the seeiie ol" liis tirst Presidential plea.suje 
exeursioii. j 

One <)]■ them iiiight be that New England was the, home of b(tth 
his lather's and his mother's ancestors. 

The mother was the aecojuplished daughterofoueotNew England's 
men of biaiii, will and culture — iiimself descended from men of similar 
calibre. 

The lirst of the (iarlields, Edward, — an English immigrant, — had 
settled in Massachusetts in 17;>H. One of his descendants, Abraham Gar- 
field, was among the "militia" who, at Concord, opened, with 
powder and l)all, the conflict that was to end at Yorktown. 

And Abiaham's l»rother, yclept Solomon, was also a valiant 
soldier of the Kevolution. 

Under fire at ('on('(»rd, with the militia-man, Abraham Garfield, 
was anothei- good soldier, .John Hoar by name. It was the fortune of 
his great-grandson, a United States Senator; to i)reside, over a hundred 
years later on, at the National Convention that nominated for Presi- 
dent of the United States the great-grandson of that tighting "Old 
Continental, " Solomon (larfield. 

JJut, the chief reason for the selection was doubtless the President's 
desire to accept the invitation, — tendered him, by its otticers and 
students, — to l)e i)resent at Williams College, in Williamstown, Mass., 
on " commencement day.'' The Alumni of the old College were to be 
there — its renowned ex-President, the venerable Professor Hopkins, 
was to be there. And he, the Executive, was one of the Alumni ; and, 
twenty-five years ago, he had graduated under the kindly auspices of 
liis life-long friend, President Hopkins. 

There, after twenty years' struggle with poverty and i)rivati()n, 
he had finally won the pri/^e that in his boyhood he had determined 
should bejhis.: the prize that, when he was yet but a child, his mother 
had determined he should win. 

She had formed this resolution when left a widow, in a log-hut in 
the wilderness, far from relatives and friends, with a family of little 



FUNERAL CEREMONIES. 9 

chilcircu utterly iiiiprovidcd tor. She had iiiaiiitaiiu'd this resolution 
with heroic steadfastness, even when compelled tx) s^plit rails to fence 
in tlie few acres that t^ave food to iier scanty hoard. Her son had 
iniierited this nohle mother's lofty inspiration and unyieldinjr courage. 
And now, as the result, in — the wood-cho[)|)er, carpenter, canal-team 
driver, hut zealous stud(>nt evei' — he, a (lieneral of Armies — he, a 
Senator of Senators— he, the President of the United States, was 
iioing- hack once more to college, — once more to take his old President 
by the hand I 

Can we not see and sympathize with I lie look and smile of honest 
j)ride that must have lit up the manly face of the new President, as he 
stood in his room in the White House that hright July morning, and 
recalled and dwelt upon the strange scenes and marvelous contrasts of 
his life-career. 

Mayhai), unseen to mortal eye, tlie grim " Old C'ontiuental " 
stood near. — his pale face also lit u]> with a smile of pride, albeit a 
ghostly sndle, — as he contemplated his great-grandson ; and saw in 
him the cheerful spirit, the determined will, the unfaltering patriotism 
that gave victory at last to the men of Valley Forge. 

But the President's Secretary of State was waiting without, to 
accompany his friend and chief to the railroad depot ; and so James 
A. Garfield left the White House, — a strong, stalwart man, full of life 
and vigor and hope— rejoicing to be relieved of toil and care 

As he was driven ra|)idly along the Avenue, he may jKissibly have 
recalled its crowded, l)rilliant aj>pearance on the day of his inaugura- 
tion. But little cared he now — tiie warm-hearted, genial man,— for 
official honors and puhlic triumphs. He had returned to ])rivate life 
once more. He would soon he with wife and sons and daughter. 
He was, like any other private citizen, " oti' for a holiday." 

He could see, to his right and left, only men wiio touched their hats 
to him respectfully, and women who smiled [)leasantly on so good a 
son, husband and father. He could not see the grim " Old Continen- 
tal," running by his side ; and, with ghastly look and ghostly gesture, 
warning him of a foe,— even then awaiting him, — more dangerous far 
than English bullets and bayonets had been at Concord. 



10 HISTORY OF TIIK 



Nor foulil lie lu'ai' lii> old .MotluT, in licr t':ir ;i\\;iy lioiiic, — inouni- 
iiiu oNHT Ikt kill so rccciitiy c-;irri('(l to nntiiiu'ly uravcs,- and sadly 
askiiiu' : "I wonder wiio will l)i' taken next I" 

At tlial vei-_\ inoinent, lief Son, arin-in-anii, ami cliattiiifi' jiaily 
with Ills Seeretaiy of State, was enterinu' the I'ailroad depot : and the 
Assassin, tiion.iih W(tnien and children weix' all around him, gripped 
his fatal weapon. 

\'\\v olil niotlier's ouesi jon was soon answered. 



VWV: Willi's MAGIC. 



In the ('rescenf ('ity, as elsewlit-re, the first anuoinnement that 
the "Pre-sident had lieen shot down by an assassin," was received with 
general incrednlity. Some considered the dispatch a.s an audacious 
stock-johhiii<r hoax. ( )thers concluded that the shooting — if shooting 
there was — could i)e only the result of an accident. 

When the telegrams, that rajjidly succeeded each other, only too well 
contirnied the first startling announcement, the whole city was thrown 
into a tumult of horror, indignation, sorrow — sorrow^ for the ilhistrious 
victim; horror at the deed itself; fiercest indignation against the 
wretch who had committed it. The excitement, indeed, w-as so intense 
and general that husiness was virtually suspended. 

The tir-t dispatches held out no hope of the survival of the wounded 
President heyond a few liours. He himself, the telegrai^her reported, 
had said to his physician : " I am a dead man — but I am not afraid to 
die." Yet, even in that trying moment, he had sent his absent wife a 
loving and reassuring mes.sage. 

Hour alter hour went by, and still the victim clung to life, though 
slowly sinking ; and still the people of New Orleans waited, and hoped, 
:ind feared— for with them the deep sympathy for the President and 
his alllicted family j)red(miinated even over the bitter ire against the 
(old-hlooded, self-ackjiowledged murderer. 



FUNER A r. CEREMON I KS. I 1 

Finally, late at night, just after tlie receipt ofa dispatcli that seemed 
to elose the tragedy — for it said : " Tlu' President is again sinking, and 
there is little, if any, hojie " — came anotlier, reporting that ■' He had 
rallied; that his symptoms were more favorable; that he continued 
brave and cheerful." And still another of like favorable tenor. 

That heshould continue to be " brave and cheerful " did not surprise 
the anxious groups that had waited and watched far into the night. 
Indeed, it was his courage and spirit, strikingly nuuk' manifest from 
the first, that still gave the people hope against iiope. But this sudden 
and continued change for the better was so unexpected that it was 
donbted, until the explanation came— an ex[)lanatioii that sensibly 
lighteJied the general gloom. 

The explanation was, that Mrs. Oarlidd liad arrived in Wash- 
ingto)i ; and lier jtresence by her stricken husband's side, ber ntlection- 
ate words and hopeful spirit, had acted like magic upon him. 

" If he recovers," said the doctors, " it will be i\uv gicatly to the 
presence of his devoted wife." 

" Though still weak from her recent illness," said another dispatch, 
" and shocked b^ the suddeness of the sorrow that has come upon her, 
" she has behaved since her arrival with courage and self-control, e<iual 
" to those of her husband. She has not given way to the terror and 
"grief she naturally feels, but is constantly by the President's side, 
" encouraging him with her sympathy, and giving etticient aid, as far 
" as in her power, to the physicians." 

Many a manly eye was moist when that dispatch was read. 

Now, — strengthened by his wife's presence ami affection, — the 
President, it was telegraphed, had asked his Doctor, " What were the 
ijidications? " The physician answered: "There is a chance of 
reoovery." The wounded man's brave reply, cheerfully spoken: 
"Well, we will take that chance!" sent a thrill of hope and admira- 
tion into every bosom. 

Whilst tender-heartetl women everywhere prayed that night for 
the sufferer's recovery, brave-hearted men everywhere recognized in 
him a mau-of-men, — full worthy of the tribute of regret and respect the 
world waa then paying him. 

No where was that tribute more sincerely paid than iji New 
Orleans. 



lllSl'ORV OK THE 



M:\\ ORLEANS SPEAKS. 



riii'iv was liut oiu' li't'linf; in our coiuimiiiity, and i( was cxliibited 
Willi ;i sponlainMt.v and fci'vor that were reniarkahle. 

The I'HKSS K'lvc tlif most fnii)liatie ami decided utterance to the 
|Miiiul;ii- sentiment. Dailies and Weeklies, -['olitical, Helij^ious, Agri- 
cultural, and Commercial alike denounced the awful crime, Joined in 
warm praise ot the illustrious victim, and in tender sympathy for his 
sutlerinf-s and the altliction of his family. 

The State's young' (iovernor — a man of ((uick and f^eiierous im- 
j)ulscs would have lu'en the tirst Olhcial to give foi-nial expressions 
to the peoi)le's sentiments, liut iioris A. NVii/i'/. was himself then 
hravely battlinji' witli ileath. 

The City Authorities were promj>t to act ; and they were promptly 
followed by the various leadiiiii commercial, henevoient, religious, and 
other Associations. 

■ .M.WOR .lOS. .A. SHAKSI'KAKK 
.said to a uewspaj^er rej)resentative, shortly after tjie news of the 
attempted assas.sination was received: 

" When 1 tirst heard of this matter, I experienced a thrill of horror, 
liccause of the deed itself, and also the blow which seems thus to have 
iKcn ainu'd at tiie fair name of our country. The man who committed 
this deed was probably crazy. That is a charitable construction to put 
upon it. At any rate, the fact is a startling- one to be confronted, that 
i' has come to i)ass that the life of the President of the United States 
may be threatened by assassins, because .some action of his fails to please. 
This question must l)e met stjuarely, and at once. Our great country 
cannot allow such ])ractices to grow. 

" The ]>eople of the Ignited States, and of the South particularly, will 
condemn this act in no uncertain terms. They abhor anything of the 
kinii. Why, even when Lincoln was killed", and the "minds of the 
|)C()i)K' w cri- excited, and their feelings aroused by the progress of a civil 
war, his a.ssassi nation was condenuu-d and greatly regretted by the 
entire people. It is devoutly to be hope<l that the President willlive; 
but what 1 iirim-ipaliy regard, is the blow which lias been aimed at the 
fundamental princi]»lcs of American liberty." 

AD.MINISTKA'roU WALSHK 
said he was hi led with horror at the dastardly outrage that had been 
|)erpetrated. "If Mr. (iartield should die, it would prove a national 
<-alamity. The South, in particular, would lose a good friend. In the 
siiort lime that Mr. (Jarfield has been in oHice, he has given promise of 
being om- of the best and most patriotic Presidents we have had for 
years." 



FUNERAT. (JBKEMONIES. 



ADMINISTRA'I'OH KITZl'ATKICK 



said: "In inauy ivspects, tlic death of (JarCu'ld woiiM ho a iialioiial 
cahuiiily, hut |)arti(*iihirly in this, tliat Ik- lias j)r()V('<l llius far a f'lvsi- 
(It'iit of till' whole count ly, and not only of one or Iwosectioi s. Tiu' 
|)eo{)h' siioul<l rejoice if this siuiotiuti' does iu)t terminate fahdly" 



ADMINlSTUA'I'oK I >KI,A]\I()KI': 

exj)ressed liis sorrow for vviiat iiad iiaj)|>ened (otiie I'lesident. " If (lie 
deed was done to serve any iniayiiu-d ^reat end, it will prove a com- 
plete failure. If any other end was eontemplatt'd, (he movers therein 
will surely sutler." 

ADM INISTKATOR (i l' 1 LLOTTI : 

remarked that he could not say more than his eolleajjui's had already 
said coneernint; this crime. " Kvery right thinUinu man, excry 
Loui.sianian, every American, should raise his voice in denuin-intion 
of this horrihle deecl." 

ADMINISTKATOKS FA(iAN, IIUGEK AND lArEALEV 

were out of town, and, therefore, could not he seen on the .suhjecl, hut 
they telegraphed to the Mayor their horror and regret, and classed tin' 
attempted assassination as a national calamity. 

rHP] CITY COCNt'IL. 

Three days after,— the .Ith of July, — at the regular weekly session 

of the Council, the following resolutions were adoi)ted, and the Mayor 

I'equested to forward them hy telegraph : 

Whereas, The life of the Chief Magistrate of the nation has Iteen 
assailed by an assassin's hand ; be it 

Hetiolved bi/ tin Couunon, Council of the (My of Ncir Orlea)i>=. in 
regulnr meetiny asschibled, That the People of the City, through us, 
their Representatives, express their condemnation of the act, and 
thougli it seems but the deed of personal malice, take this occasion to 
<leclare their faith in the suprei^iacy of the law and tlieir confidence in 
the permanency of our institutions. 

Jiesolred, That the People of New Orleans acknowledge the 
unspeakable horror and grief which the message of this deed has 
stricken into their hearts ; that they have watched with eager anxiety 
the life struggle which holds the]ieople in susi)ense, and with each 
assuring hope, send fervent prayers to the Throne of (Irace that the 
assassin's object may be thwarted, and life and health restored to him 
who is President of a whole and reunited country. 

BeHoIred, That his Honor, the Mayor of this City, communicate 
these resolutions forthwith to the Hon. James G. Blaine, Secretary of 
State, with expressions of condolence and sympathy at the suffering 
and distress which have so undeservedly invaded the peace and hapi)i- 
ness of President Uarfield and his famiiy. 

The Mayor stated to tlie Council that he had already sent the 

following telegram : 



lllbTOKY UK THE 



New Orleans, July 4, is,si. 

lliiii. James. G. I'.hiiiic. Sccn'tary of Stale, Wiishirifitoii, D. C. : 

New Oili'uns sends symputhy and sincerely hopes the President 
w ill soon rei-dver. We watch with great interest for every bulletin, 
Kiid feel eiieouriiu'ed liv the latest we have. 

JOS. 4. SHAKSPEARE, 

Mayor. 

CKANl) AKMV OK THR RKPUEl^IC. 

Tiir iiilic< Ts ami ineniliers of this national organization, — claiming 

llie President as one of them, — ^took api)ropriate action at all their 

posts throughout the liiion. What they did in New Orleans is thus 

>ei forth : 

NKW ORJiEANS, July 4, ISSl. 
Hull. Itulierl '1". I.iiicolii. SeiTctary of War, W.nshiiigton, D. O. : 

Joseph ,\. Mower Post No. 1, Grand Army of the Republic, 
Deparlment of Louisiana, and Kncampment of the Boys in Blue, 
Louisiana, send sincere regrets to Mrs. Gartield, hoping and praying 
for I lie President's rec(jver\'. 

WM. ROV, 
( 'ommander Grand Army and Boy,s in Blue. 

The same day liie lol lowing reply to this telegram was received : 

Washington, July 4, 1881. 

\\ 111. Ivoy, CoMiiiiaiuler (Jiaiiil Ariii.s Kepublic, N. G.: 

On l)ehalfof Mrs. Garfield, 1 thank you for your telegram. The 
President's condition is ver\ ci'itical. 

ROBERT T. LINCOLN, 

Secretary of War. 

rilK IIOWAKI) ASSOCIATION. 

The members of this Society, of world-wide fame, held their annual 
meeting on the 4th and elected the following otlicers : For president, 
liial veteran " Howard," James ;N[. Vandegrifi'; vice-president, Gen. 
I' red. N. Ogden ; secretary, F. R. Southmayd ; treasurer. S. B. New- 
man. The following dispatch was sent to Washington, as expressive 
of the sentiments ol' the " Howards :" 

Hull, .laiiu'.s c;. liUiine. Seeietar.\- of SUtte : 

The Howard Association of New Orleans, in annual meeting assem- 
bled, desire to express thi'ir deep .sympathy for the J^resident in the 
t<'riible calamity which has befalleii him aiiil, through him, our whole 
<-oiin(ry ; their ferventdesire and prayer for his recovery ; their execra- 
tion ami condenniation of (he crime; and further tender their heart- 
felt .•sympathies witii, and prayers for, his stricken family in their deep 
atlliction. 

F. \i. SOUTHMAYD, 

Secretary. 

I'Hi; CKN'I'KAL HANCOCK CLUH, 

wiiirji was ori:aiii/.ed in isds, with branches throughout the State, had 



I'TNEKAL (;ERJ;M(>NIKS. 1.) 

a lai'ui'lv a(ti'ii<lc(l iiu'ctiiii;' J. I'iiickucy Siuitli, lucsidciil , and Win 
McN'icar, sccrc(ary. The lollowini;- resolutions were iiuaniinously 
a(lo|))c'(l, and I'orwank'd to Scci'clary l>lainc: 

/iV .so/rrY /. Tliat the (Mult lias lieard with |irolouii<i rctiict and dt't'|M'sl 
iiidijiiiatioii of tlu' atteinpt on the life of (ho I'lvsidcnt. In (toninion 
with tln' |H'o|»k' of the whoir coniniunity we join in the universal eoii- 
deinnalion, and also in the expression of warmest syin|>Hthy with the 
Tresident and hisdevoted family in this, the hour of their sad alTliel ion. 

/iCKolrcd^ 'J'liat the prayers of the ( 'iuh will ijonptothe "diodof 
all " to spare and preserve the life of our I'resideiil, to the end that tiie 
honor and integrity of Amerieaii institutions may he sustained, and 
that the administration of the uovernmeiil under his eonservati\-e. 
wise and just control, may forever unite the people of e\t'iy section of 
the country in one common destiny, and eftiice the ia-^t vesti;^eof see- 
tionalisni. 

ViW. VWXSWWM OV (OM^IKHCK, 

the oldest chartered association of our merchants, took the roljowinu 
action, through its acting President; 

Nkw ()hi,I',.\ ,\s, .Jul;,- H, isM. 
'I'o tlif Hon. .las. (i. I'.laiiH', St^crelary of State: 

Sir — I have the honor tm behalf of the Chamher of Commerce of 
New Orleans, to address you the expressions of their sym|iatliy and of 
their condolence for tlie calamity which has threateiieil the country in 
the attempted assassination of the President. 

The attempted assassination of the President of the I'nited States 
has tilled the civilized world with horror, and the citizens of the I'nited 
States with indignation and shame, that a miscreant capable of imagin- 
insr such a crime should he found within their limits. 

The Chamber of Commerce of New Orleans returji their sincere 
H'ratitude to Almighty God that he has thus far vouchsafed the liope 
that the Chief Magistrate of the Republic may be sj^ared, and the 
country relieved froiu the re^jroach which the consummation of an 
act so dreadful might have brought upon it. 

The (Chamber hereby tender their sincere ,symj)athy to President 
(lartield and to his family for the suttering and anxiety through which 
they have passed. 

They trust that a public and impartial trial will exonei'ate any 
from complicity in the knowledge of the act; and that a legal verdict 
may visit upon the crimiiial himself a Just retribution for having 
attempted a crime foreign to the character of our institutions, ami 
abhorrent to the sentiment of our whole peo])le, without regard to 
race, party or section. 

Very respectful! v, 

K. S. HOWARD, 

Vice President 

THE HANCOCK ASSOCIATION, 

organized in 1SH(», under the leadership of Ex-Gov. John McEnery, — 
held a special meeting at their headquarters, on the od, — Hon. R. W. 
Adams as Secretary. The President spoke of the sad ni-ws from Wash- 



l(i HISTORY OK THE 



iiinloii. ami aslu'd tlu- inciulicrs to inaiiitVsl their sympathy for the 
President in .some appropriate form. Kx-Mayor I. W. Patton there- 
iijion oflercd the tollo\viii« resolutions, wliich were luianimously 
adtiplid, and oidercd to lie telegraphed to Secretary Blaine: 

lie il ivxo/red, That the reeent attempt to assassinate President 
(lartield has been received and is regarded by the members of this 
Association and l)y their relU)\v countrymen as a great calamity to the 
nation. It arouses in tiic l>reasts of all patriotic citizens the prf)- 
foundcst sorrow and sympathy for the l*resident and his family, and, 
also, grave anxieties for tiie tn)ul)les and turmoils that may result to 
the Kepul)lic from so horril)le a crime. 

fir If i-cNo/r((/, That we cherish the most earnest and sincere hopes, 
and unite witii all good j)eople in their fervent i>rayers, for the recovery 
of llic President from his great attiiction. 

TJIl<: CO'J'TON KXCHANGE 

sent I lie I'dlldwing dispatch : 

New Okleais's, July o, l.ssi. 

I'.. 11(111. .Ill s (i. lihiino, S<iT(t;!r.v oistaie, Wa.shinj^ton, D. C: 

In i)clialfof the New Orleans ("otton Exchange, I desire to express 
I be indignation ami horror experienced by its members at the dastardly 
act of Ww assassin wliicli I breatens the life of a great and good man. 
The President and his family have our siiicerest sympathies, and we 
earnestly join in the universal prayer that the Almighty may see tit 
to sjiare liini. 

THUS. L. AJREY, 
President N. O. Cotton Exchange. 

IIIK I'KODrclO EXC'HAXOK 
liiu-- expressed itsel I' : 

Xk\\- ()kj.I':ans, July ■), I8.sl. 

To Ilun. .1. »i. UUtiiic, .Si'<-icli)r,v. Wiiishiiijitoii : 

The New Orleans Produce Exchange have heard witii painful 
soiTow and indignation of the dastardly attempt on the life of the 
I'i'esident of the llnited States, and ti\ey desire to express through you 
to our wortliy President and his family dee{t symi>athy in their 
dislri>siiiu ealamity, jind to Join their prayers with those of the whole 
count r\ foi- liis prompt and full recoverv. 

W. M. SMALI.WOOD, 

Secretary. 

TIIK r.O.VKI) OF 1:N1)KHVVKITERS, 

oiH' of our oldest liiisiness organizations, sent the following telegram : 

Office Boaki> of Underwriters, ) 
New Orleans, July 6, 1881. I 

.1. <.i. Blaine, !Secretar.\ , WasliinKtoii : 

The Board of Underwriters of the City of New Orleans extend 
to tlie President and his family, and the Cabinet, its profound sorrow 
for the great disaster which has fallen upon the country. It earnestly 
prays that tile life of the President may be spared, aiid that he may 
be pernutted to continue to guide the destinies of our united countrv. 



Tin; YOUNt^ MION'S CHKISTTAN ASSOCI A'J'ION, 

held their regular (]uarterl.y meeting, on the evening of the. jth of July, 
vice-president, B. T. Walshe, in the ehair, and VVn). W. Crane, secre- 
tary. Mr W. C.'. iiayniond addressed tiie meeting, referring to the 
attempted assassination of President (Jarlield, and moved tiie appoint- 
ment of a committee to give expression to the sympathetic feeling of 
the Association. The motion was unanimously adopted, and the Chair 
a|)poiuted Messrs. W. C. Raymond, ^Y. H. J)rury, W. C. Slveperd, Van 
K K. Hilliard, and M. M. Greenwood, a.s the committee. They 
reported as follows : 

Rexolved, That in the fearful and dastardly crime perjietrated upon 
the head of this Christian government, the whole country feels and 
recognizes this as a fearful manifestation of the lawlessness to which 
men are driven when asserting their individual passions as superior to 
the higher interests of the whole conisnunity. 

Resolved, That as Christians we view the exhibition of personal 
spite as the development of that vile spirit of agrarianism that would 
dethrone God and all government, and erect the passions of men as 
the arbiters and rulers of life and enthrone them in power. 

Resolved, That the perpetuity of our form of constitutional govern- 
ment demands a hold and Christian expression of heartfelt detestation 
of the tendencv of party politics to degrade and at last destroy the fair 
heritage of a Christian and constitutional government, founded on and 
protected by the principles of the word of God and his righteous sov- 
ereigntv over us as a people. 

Resolved, That our feelings of tenderest sympathy are hereby 
extended to the wife and ftimily of our honored President, the chief 
magistrate of our whole country ; and that we unite ouj prayers with 
those of this entire nation for the restoration to health of its honored 
head; and that this fearful blow at the rights and sovereignty of this 
Republic may be so sanctified by God as to tend more indissolubly to 
cement in love and exalted interest this whole people. 

The resolutions were unanimously adopted, and were ordered to be 
transmitted tfl Mrs. Garfield and the Secretary of State. 

GERMAN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 

At a prayer meeting of the congregation of the Immanuel German 
Presbyterian ;Church- Pastor, Rev. Owen Riedy— it was resolved : 

That this congregation has heard with horror of the wicked and 
atrocious attempt upon the life of President Garfield ; that we fervently 
pray that the life of so good a man and President may be spared to the 
country, and that our Pastor be requested to telegraph our heartfelt 
sympathy to him and his family in their hour of trial. 

Secretary Hunt telegraphed in reply : " In behalf of the President, 
his family and the Cabinet, I sincerely thank you for your resolutions 
of sympathy and respect." 



IN . HISTOKY OF THE 

IX THK SYXA(i()<aTK. 

A s|iefi:il service was lield in I lie Toino Kynaj^o^iie. on ( 'aroiidelet 
street. (Hi the eveiiiii,<>' ot July ")lli, tooller iii)i)rayer lor the recovery of 
the l'resi(U'iit. Kahlii I. \j. lAUcht i-oiKliicted the services. His feeling 
prayer, invoking the A linigiity's aiil for tlie wounded FiXecutive, was 
responded to l»y tlie whole ciMigregation with a fervent " Amen." His 
eloijueiit address, in wliich the universal synii)athy for the President 
and his family, and the universal indignation at the dastardly act that 
hrougiit him low were strongly expressed, was listened to by the 
numerous assembly with jjrofouud attention. 

Till' Rabbi of Temi)le Sinai, tlu' Kev. Jas. K. (Jutheim, was 
iibseiit from the city, or similar service Would certainly liave beeu held 
there. 

OL'K COLORKL) CITIZENS 

were i)romi)t and zealous in giving shape and form to their sorrowful 
feelings, on receipt of the melancholy news. 

Great preiJaration had been made for the dedication, on tiie 4tli of 
July, of the new Hall of the St. James (MEriioDi.sr) Chapel Acad- 
emy. The national holiday and the dedication were Jointly to be cele- 
brated by music, an oration and .social festivities. 

When the hour for the connneiu-ement of the ceremonies ai'rived, 
the Pastor of the Cha))el, iiev. A. M. Green, aiinounced to the numer- 
ous audience that the deplorable event, but just made public, had 
caused the abandonment of the announced programme; and it was 
determined, instead, by the Ofticers of the Chapel and the Academy, 
to hold a meeting, through which the assembly could manifest its syjn- 
l)athy for the stricken President. 

This was acceded to, and Rev. Mr. Green was appointed chair- 
nxnu ; Col. James Lewis, Dr. J. V. Newman, N. Jefferson, Hon. A. J. 
Dumont, S. Wakefield, Edward Thomi)son, and Hon. Wm. M. Bur- 
well, vice-i)residents ; W. G. Brown, H, C. C Astwood, P. Travigne, 
T. iS. Tucker, and C. J. Dowden, secretaries. 

A committee on resolutions was appointed, Hon. J. H. Burch, 
chairman. Addresses were delivered by Mr. Burch (who was to 
have been the orator of the day), Hon. O. H. Brewster, Hon. A. J. 
Dumont, Mr. H. C. C. Astwood, and Hon. Mr. Burwell. 



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Tlie resolutions,— wiiicli were directed to be traiisiuitted to the 
Tresideiit's fiimily, through the Secretary of State,— expressed, in the 
most earnest and feeling manner : 

" The horror of tiie colored jteople of tiie City of New Orleans and 
of the iState of Louisiana, at the attenii)ted assassination, and the 
public calamity involved in it; their sorrow in connnon with the 
])eopleof the entire Union for the 'beloved President;' their jirayers 
for his deliverance, and their heart-felt sympathy for his family, 
csiiccially for his faithful wife." The closing- ri'solution was: " That, 
witii humble mien and bowed hearts, we look beyond the sun and 
clouds up to our Father, God, and say, ' Thy will be done.' " 

On the ()th of July, the Ministijrs' Co-Opkrative Asso<Ix\.tion, 
of the Third District of the city, held a meeting, and forwarded to 
Secretary Blaine resohitions expressive of their "profound regret on 
" learning of the attempted assassination, and their sympathy for the 
" President and family." The closing resolution was an earnest 
recpiest to the fourteen churches and congregations represented— 
Methodist, Baptist, Congregational— to "coiitinue in prayer for the 
President's recovery." 

On the4th July, theCENTKAi. Concjhegationaj., Church, Pastor, 
Rev. W. S. Alexander, D. D. — who is also president of the Straight 
University— adopted the following resolutions, which were forwarded 
to the President and his family through Secretary Blaine: 

Resolved, That we learn with profound regret and indignation of 
the attempt to take the life of the President of the United States, and 
desire to express our heartfelt sympathy to his family in this sad event. 

Besolved, That we offer our fervent prayers lo the Almighty for 
the speedy recovery of this kind-hearted man, brave husband and 
father, patriot and statesman. 

H, E. p. AUiert and J. H. Hall, Pastors in charge. 

CHAS. B. WILSON, Secretary. 

And, on the oth July, the Ex-U. S. Colored Soldiers' and 
Sailors' Union adopted the following resolutions, which were for- 
warded to Secretary Blaine: 

Whereas, It is with sorrow and pain that we have heard of the 
cowardly attempt upon the life of our honored and beloved President, 
James A. Garfield ; therefore be it 

Besolved, That we extend to President Garfield and family our 
earnest sympathies. While we bow in humble submission to the will 
of Almighty God, we most fervently pray for the speedy recovery of 
our President. 

THOS. W. WICKHAM, President. 
EDWARD JACKSON, Recording Secretary. 



■Ji) IllsiOKV ()]" THE 



im;si>().\sk i'kom w ash i .\<;!'<).\. 

(Ml ilu iih ,hil_v. (ii'ii. MrMiilrii, our Postiiiastei-, a loiiu- tiiiif 

IMT.si.ii.'il liitiid oi' Picsiiit'iif (iaiiieiil -tele;;ra])he<l lo Postiiia.stt-i-- 

Cciicral James a -tati'iiient of the proi'otiiKl synipaliiy of New Orleaiiis 

and I lie Stale .'or \\i<- I'r.sii'eiil and lus laniiiy, and their fervent hope 

for t he sti ieken ( 'hief Maivi>trate's recovery. The reply \va« as follows : 

IC.VKcuTivK Mansion, • 

Washington, D. C, July 4. j 

Hon. \V. 1.. .VU-Millfu. New uvU'aa.s, 1-a.: 

L'he touchinj-^ expressions of syn)pa(liy on hehalf of the people of 
the city of New Orleans and the State at large, will be conveyed to the 
l're.--ideMt an<l Mr^. tiarrteh'. 

I'HOS. L. .1,\MES. I'ostniaster-Cxeneral. 



THE END. 



I'or eigiity ila^s— eighty long, hot, weary day.s and night.>* — the 
whole civilized world, it nifiy i)e truly said, watched by the bedside of 
the wounded President. 

(^rowned heads, following liie prompt and generous leadership of 
the Queen of England, were as .solicitous to know his condition, daily, 
as if he were of "the blood royal." Presidents of other Republics 
exhibited the most i>rotherly interest in this most representative of 
President.s, .so causelessly a victim to individual malice. 

The subjects of these crowned heads,— the citizens of these other 
Uepublics, — manifested Jn the nio.st convincing manner their sincere 
sympathy for the wounded leader of fifty millions of free citizens. 
Tln'y could not l)ut be astounded and dismayed at the catastrophe ; for, 
if the Executive of the greatest of Republics was to be no safer from 
a.ssassi nation than the most rigid of despotic Sovereigns, how long 
would America remain what it had .so long been, the land of promise, 
the land of refuge for the oppressed of all nations ! 

In that land— his own country— there was but cue thought, one 
feeling. The first shock over, there was no longer, as there had been 
for a moment, any apprehension of danger to the grand political fabric 



i'UNERAL CEREMONIES. 21 

erected by the Fathers. Tlie victim's cnvii incinorahlr wonls were still 
true — "God reij^ned ; and tlu- Ooveriiiiu-nt -lill liv('<l." Tlie peopii' 
felt thai it would ever live. 'I'iiey felt, too, that t here was no JNorth now, 
and no 8outh--no Hast and no We.st. They wire united as one j)eople, 
by one invisible but all powerhil tie. In presence of that stricken man 
and his stricken wife, all divisions of creed, of party : all distinctions of 
race, of color: all differences of social, bnsines-*, industrial or profes- 
sional po.sition, were forgotten. 

From the St. Lawrence to tlie Gull, froai tlic Atlantic to the 
Pacific, old and young, r'u-h and poor, native-born and lorcigu-born 
listened eagerly, hour after hour and day after day. for the bulletins 
from the sick rooni in the White House -now giuddcneu by news thai 
the President was bettei-, now saddened by news tliat lie was worse. 

Yet, strange to say, the People clung to hope when even the phy- 
sicians appeared to despond, and the last, fatal monjcnt had seemingly 
come. For, these myriads of sympathetic lookers-on hourly saw the 
sufferer himself so cheerful, so kind, so patient, so brave, — despite the 
severity and the prolongation of his sufferings,— despite the repeated 
deathly relapses— that they believed, with him and his heroic wife, 
that he would yet win the tight- 

They believed that he would yet get well; that he would yet be 
their President,— as strong in body and brain, as hopeful in spirit, as 
patriotic in soul, as generous in heart, as when he took the inaugural 
oath, and invited his fellow citizens forever to bury the strifes of the 
past and be as friends and brethren once more and forever. 

When this grandly mournful drama drew to a close, and the whole 
world knew the end was near, still the dying President, like the 
knight of old, retained his cheerful courage, and still he hoped to 
survive the terrible struggle. 

It was not to be. Science, friendship, love, had striven in vain — 
a nation's prayers ascended in vain ; and the mortal pang was to come 
to the heroic sufferer even through that big, warm heart that, through 
privation, danger, success, had beat so warmly for those it lo\ed so 
ardently, and who could do nothing for it now. 

That pain of death sent a pang through the heart of the world. It 
still lingers in every manly American heart. 



mSTOKV OF THE 



On Monday ni^lit, Septeniber 19tli — in the cottage by tlie seaside, 
where lie lia»l gone to regain strength and liealtli from old oeean's life- 
giving breezes — the President breathed his last. 

Shortly belore 1(1 o'eloek^ — in rej)ly to his physician's eiKiuiry if he 
Iflt in any way uneoinfortable — he said, " Not at all." A minute or so 
later, he fell asleep. At 10 o'clock, the Attorney Geneial telegraphed 
to Minister Lowell, at London, reassuring news. 

Fii'teen minutes later the President awoke. His old friend Swain, 

who iiad watched by liis bedside so many nights, was alone in the room 

with him, still faitiifuUy watching the thin form and emaciated face. 

He awoke with the death-pang upon him. " Oh, Swain I" he said, 

pressing his hand on his heart, " the pain ! the pain !" 

Soon he was, happily, um^onscious ; he felt the pain no longer. 
A little later on the silence was broken only by the sobs of the 
patient, devoted wife. The i)hysician solenmly said : " It is ended !" — 
and James A. (jartield had i)assed to his final vest. 

He was born on the nineteenth day of the month ; he had long 
represented in Congress the Nineteenth Ohio District; and he had 
been jnomoted to a Major (generalship for gallantry at bloody Chicka- 
mauga, on the P)th Septeml)er, isC.;]. He had frequently told his inti- 
mate friends that he would die on an anniversary of that memorable 
conflict. And so, at 10:35 o'clock at night, on Monday, September 19th 
—nineteen years before the death of the Nineteenth Century— the 
President's prediction of his own death came true. 



NEW orlp:ans in mourning. 



A few hours after, the melancholy event wa,s made known to the 
])eoph' of this city l)y the Daily Papers, whose editorials reflected 
in the most elo(|uent terms and impressive manner the sentiments of 
their tens of thousands of readers. It must suttice for this record to 
present only extracts froin the.se articles. 



THE PICAYUNE. 

Tliroughout the broad confines of this great kind there was nauglit 
but sincere respect for liis authority among the masses, and earnest 
wishes in the liearts of nearly all her (-iti/ens that his administration 
might prove a, hapi)y one for'himsclf, as it promised a prosperous one 
for the country. He was worthy of so proud a position. * * * 

He has truly died for his country, for his death will make his 
countrymen better and exalt his people. On the (U'ep grief wiiich fills 
every part of our land there will follow a broatier patriotism and a 
stronger purpose to make the Republic continue to deserve the loyalty 
of its citizens and the respect of all mankind. 

THi; TIMES. 

We have lost a man for whom not only his great seat of authority 
but his catholic motives as disclosed in his put>lic utterances, com.- 
manded respect. * * * 

James Abram (xartield goes back from the scorch and tumult of 
public life to a shaded ([uiet like that in which he was born. Hence- 
forth, he lives a memory— and though he was permitted to accomplish 
but little during his Presidential service, by his death he has given to 
his countrymen a deeper scrutiny into thonselves : amost precious 
service. * * * 

The assassin has lifted his victim to a sad but lofty eminence in 
the aftections of his countrymen— and possibly has brought the jieo]>le 
of all sections of the country neai-er together in a common sorrow than 
they have been brought witliin the previous lialf century.— The blood 
of the martyr may prove the seal of a more perfect union. 

THE DEMOCRAT. 

The President has died untimely, and the loss is the nation's rather 
than his own. 

He is dead, struck down at the post of duty, and dying with his 
hand upon the helm. No brutal oppressor, sacrificed to a people's 
righteous indignation ; no feeble imbecile who had too long put to 
shame the age his existence cursed — but a strong, big-hearted man, full 
of warm sympathies and lofty purposes ; tit representative of our free 
institutions, and type of the' earnest, virile, enlightened civilization 
which was proud to make him its leader and exponent. 

In that promised time when all mysteries are to be made clear, and 
when the sad tangles of this blindfold, stumbling life of ours shall be 
unraveled, we may discern the wisdom and the mercy of this atttiction. 
To-day we can only bewail its heaviness with tears which, if they be 
unavailing in every other sense, at least do honor to those who shed 
them. 

THE BEE (French). 

President Garfield lived long enough after his wound to enjoy, as 
much as his cruel affliction permitted, the assurances of sympathy of the 
entire American people, and of the people of foreign countries and their 
governors. ^^ * * jf the Emperor of Russia had sur- 

vived the last attempt on his life, he certainly would not have excited 
more regret for the attack and joy at his recovery than did President 
Garfield ; he would, perhaps, have excited less. 

So that, during his long suffering, the President was gladdened by 
the knowledge that he possessed the esteem of the nation ; and that 



21 lllriTOKY OF TU£ 



even this spirit of |)aitisaiislii|) liad entirely given j^lace to the horror 
universally fell at tlie cowardly attenij>t upon his life. He did not long 
enjoy this lofts consolation, butitmust have.soothed his last moments. 

THK GKKMAN GAZKTTE. 

James A. Garfield had become dear to the American people, as one 
uf those of its Presidents who had elevated himself from the common 
walks of llfi', by his own abilities and energy, through his own diligence 
ami intellect, to the loftiest position attainable b^' the free citizen of 
America. * * * * jr 

Vpou his administration, from the time of liis entering upon his 
otHcial duties, up to July the 2(1, no one will think of passing a Judg- 
ment. The President had hardly seized the helm of State, when the 
bullet oftheassasin reached him. 

^Ve know, however, that Gartied, as a man of multifarious knowl- 
edge and of many years' experience in the public .service, was notonlj' 
capaltle, i)Ut also full of endeavor, to give to this country a good and 
conscientious administration. * * " - 

Could his life have been saved, he would liave Ijccome the most 
popular President this country has ever seen. 

Not alone the heroism which Garfield disi)layed upon his couch of 
pain, but also tiie self-s.icrificing love with whii^h his wife, — who, her- 
self, had hardly recovered from severe sickness, nursed Inm — the family 
picture of tlie late I'resident, in its entirety— has made an ineffaceable 
impression upon the entire American nation, and l)rought about a 
most wholesome and elevating etlect. 

Tile American People will prote(;t the mourning survivors of their 
murdered President in the noblest manner, and keep forever in honor 
the memory of Jajnes .\. (iarlield. 

p;VKXIN(; ("[TV ITKM. 

The last oflicial bidletin has been published. No need of doubt, 
now, as to its truth and veracity. Death has issued the bulletin, and 
with the rising sun this morning came tlie sad news to a sorrowing 
public. ■' * -^ James Abram Gartield will live in 

the memory of his pople a,s a brave and true man— suffering all the 
tortures of a martyrdom without complaint, and preserving to the last 
hour of Ills life the strong spirit of kindne.ss that had always marked 
his condu(;t to others. Hissuficrings, borne unnuirmuringly, endeared 
him to the nation. 

KVKXING STATKS. 

In his Ijrief tenure of that office he had manifested the highest 
qualities of a magnanimous and broad minded President. His admi- 
rable temper, self-command, and dignified bearing had impressed 
the wliole i>eople with a high sense of his full appreciation of the 
respojisibilities of the chief magistrate of the greatest Republic in the 
world. 

JHis nuuily bearing under his sudden and terrible atttiction, warmed 
tills s( iitiment into an allectionate regard and admiration for the man 
and Cliristian. Around the cold and shrunken corpse of the, but a 
few wet'ks ago, vigorous, brave and earnest citizen, statesman and chief 
magistrate, will gather and kneel, in deepest grief and sorrow, fifty 
millions of freemen from whom with one voice will uprise the fervent 
prayei' : 

''Bequieacat in Pace.'''' 



FUNERAL CEREMONIES. 25 



THK PUBLIC EDIFTCES. 

In the iJiiblic editii-es, the offleers did not await otlic-ial advices or 
iustruetious ; but, of their own accord and spontaneously, promptly 
look steps to drape the various buildings in niourninj^. 

At the U. B. Mint, on Esplanade street, by order of Superintend- 
ent M. V. Davis, business was suspended at an early hour and the 
massive editice placed in sable garb. 

The U. 8. Q,UAKTER-M ASTER and Pav-Mastkk's Offices, on 
Camp street, — U. S. Commissakv's otfice and depot, on Magazine 
street,— U. S. Light House office, on Union street,— IT. S. Engineer's 
office, on Oanal street,--and IT. 8. SHiPPiNf; ComjussiOxXEk's office, 
on Decatur street, displayed the national rtag, gatliered with crape at 
half mast, while crape hung in festoons and bands from windows and 
galleries, and enframed the doorways. 

In the great Custom House BuiIjDINg, on Canal street, the army 
of officials and sub-employees were prepared, by the tenor of the dis- 
patches of the day previous, for the melancholy announcement ; but 
nevertheless its effect upon them was that of deep and universal regret. 
A number of them, like Gen, McMillen, the Postmaster, were personal 
friends of the dead Executive or had served under him in the field, and 
their sorrow was poignant and freely expressed. 

Early in the day, Gen. Algernon S. Badger, Collector of the Port, 
called a meeting of the Heads of Departments in his office, to deter- 
mine what action should be had by them as a body. 

The Departments represented were the U. B. Circuit and District 
Courts, U. S. District Attorney, U. S. Marshal, the Post Office, the 
Assistant Treasury and Treasury Special Agency, the Internal Reve- 
nue, the Collector's, the Bonded Warehouses, Surveyor of the Port, 
Supervising Inspectors of Steam Vessels, Construction, Marine Hospi- 
tal, Surveyor General, Land Office, the Weigher's, Gauger's, Apprais- 
er's, and the Naval Office. 

After various propositions, a motion, proposed by Naval Officer, Hon. 
A. J. Dumont, was unanimously adopted that: "The Custom House 
Building be appropriately decorated in mourning and the expenses be 
borne by all the Federal officials in the edifice." 



L'O HISTORY Ol^^ THK 



Hon. Mollis Marks, Collector of Internal Revenue, then offered a 
motion lliat : "'I'lu' various Federal Offices be closed this day, as aniark 
orn'spcct to the late IMcsident of the United Rtates." 

i'liis was uiiaiiiinoiisly adopted, and the meeting adjourned. 

All llic (.niccs were closed |)re(Msely at twelve o'cl()(!k ; and then, 
under the supervision of tlie Heads of Departments, the work of decor- 
atinu licjj^an. It was zealously i)articipated in by all the clerks and 
oth«'r employees, who cheerfully contributed their time, labor and 
money to carry out the plans of their ciiiefs. The result was, that ere 
loni^ tlie vast fiiindte edifice was di'aited on all four of its lofty facades, 
clear around the s<juare, with broad l)ands and festoons of black and 
white clotii, that hung also from the deep embrasures of the long tiers 
of windows, and around the wide portals — j)roducing a most striking 
and siiiizularly imposing effect. 

Witliin the Building, each of the numerous halls, corridors and 
ollices was tastefully decorated. Under the superintendence of Mr. 
.1. M. Tomlinson, Gen. Badger's chief clerk, the draping of the mag- 
nificent central marble hall was executed with great taste. The 
entrance to it was festooned with black and white streamers, and 
witiiin, heavy black bands enwrapped the tall marble pillars from 
ceiling to pedestal. 

In the Post Office, Gen. McMillen set all his clerks to work, and 
tlieir skill and taste produced one of the most elegant and appropriate 
combinations of mourning symbols exhibited anywhere in the whole 
country, the work being done under the immediate supervision of 
Major M. T. Fuller, Superintendent of Mails. 

The main entrance to the Post-Office, on Decatur street, corner of 
( 'anal, was draped with black and white cloth. In the interior of the 
lobby, festoons of black and white entwined, hung from the walls, 
meeting at each of the two chandeliers and forming a canoijy of dra- 
jjery. In the centre or the lobby floor a massive base and pedestal 
supported a broken column, of the finest Italian marble, typical of the 
pure life and untimely death of the President. A life-size portrait of 
him rested against the shaft. Sprigs of ivy and evergreen surrrounded 
the base of the column and a simple wreath crowned its summit. Gray 



FUNERAL CJJKEMONIES. 27 



moss was placed around the base and studded with How<'rs, niaUins;- a 
most beautiful Horal display, which was renewed from day to day until 
the funeral. 

To the right of the lobby was a tablet bearing tiie inseription, 

In M k m o k 1 a m . 

DIED, 

September 19th, ISSl, 

JAMES A. (JAIIFIFLD. 

Immediately over this tablet hung a floral shield representing the 
arms of the United States, draped, the whole being surmounted by a 
white dove. 

At the State House, on St. Louis sti'eet, business was suspended 
in all the oftices— the Governor's, Secretary of State's, Auditor's, Treas- 
urer's, Attorney General's, Adjutant General's, Land Register's, Engi- 
neers', Commissioner of Agriculture, Superintendent of Education, 
and Board of Health — and the great building placed in mourning ; the 
lofty portals on St. Louis and Royal streets being hidden in darlv dra- 
l)ery, whilst broad black and white folds ran along the wide gallery on 
the three fronts, on Cliartres, St. Louis and Royal streets. 

Similar emblems of mourning were likewise speedily disjilayed at 
all the other public ofltices and halls; the Recorders' Courts, the (Ut^' 
Courts, the Criminal Courts, the Civil District CJourts, the Court of 
Appeals, the Supreme Court ; the Sheriffs' and Constables' offices ; the 
State Library ; the offices of the Tax Collectors, the Harbor Masters, 
the Assessors, the Registrar of Voters, the Produce Inspectors, the Re- 
corder of Mortgages and the Recorder of Conveyances. 

The Armories of the numerous Military Organizations likewise 
displayed mourning insignia early in the day, — as did the various 
Banks and Insurance Offices, the Railroad Depots, the Fire Comjjany 
Houses, the Halls of the numerous Benevolent Associations, the Hotels, 
the Newspaper offices, the Gas Company's elegant office, that of the 
Waterworks Company , the Mechanics' and Dealers' Exchange, the Hall 
of the Chamber of Commerce, that of the Young Men's Christian As_ 
sociation, and other edifices and halls of like public character and use. 



28 UlSTORY OF THE 



riie Headquarters of the Grand Army of the Republic, at the 
roriiLT of Custonilioiiso and De'catur streets, was amonf? the first build- 
iii-j^s to In- plaitMl ill sable drapery on Tuesday moniinj^-. The national 
colors wcif displayed at lialf-mast.— The deceased President had no 
siiicerer mourners than tiie members of this numerous organization of 
battle-tried h'ederal veterans, of wiiom he was one. 

I'be broad windows and portal of the Armory and (.'lub Room 
of that <nr2J.s iVelite, the (' >NTiNENTAl. GUARDS,— under the Odd Fel- 
lows' Hall, on Camp street— were tastefully draped, the Continentals' 
flag, looped up with crape, being suspended over the doorway. 

The Produce Exchange, on Magazine street; the Stock Ex- 
changk:, on Carondelet street ; and the Cotton Exchange, on Gra- 
vier street, were heavily draped in mourning, by order of the officers 
and members of those bodies, after the opening meeting hour. 

The lofty and elegant facade of the Masonic Hall, on St. Charles 
street, presented the most striking exterior mourning display of all 
the edifices. The sable drapery fell in broad and multitudinous folds 
from the roof to the foundation ; whilst between the columns on the 
second story piazza that fronts the main hall, was suspended a gigantic 
shield bearing this motto in great black letters, visible from afar : 

brothek 

JAMES A. GARFIELD, 

a true man 

and 

MASON. 
Rer/uiescat in Pace. 



FLAGS AND BELLS. 

Early on Tuesday morning, Chief Engineer Thos. O'Connor, of 
the First, Sei^ond, Third and Fourth Districts P"'ire Department, pub- 
lished the following order: 

" In view of the sad death of our beloved and honored President, 
the following order is issued : 

'' The Foremen of the respective Fire Companies will cause the 
engine-houses to be draped in mourning, and suspend the flag of their 
company at half-mast until further orders, in honor of the illustrious 
deceased. 

" The bells of the Fire Alarm Telegraph will be tolled at intervals 
of half an hour throughout the day." 



FUNERAL CEREMONIES. 139 

1 1\ the Sixth District Kiiv Dopurtiut'iit, by order of (,'liiel' Horace 
V. I'hillips. tile tire bells were tolled, on the 2(nl>, from i) to iO o'clock 
A. M., from 12 to 1 P. M., Jind ai-aiii at (> P. M., and the company tlajis 
displayed at half-mast at the engine houses. 

In Algiers— Fiftli District— and (Jarrollton— Seventii DistricI— sim- 
ilar orders were issued to and executed by the Fire Companies. 

The solemn sound of the bells, slowly lung at measured intervals 
throughout the day, added to the general gloom. The melanciioiy 
echoes seemed l)orne on the sighing winds from tlie far-oft' cottage 
whose pallid, rigid inmate could hear no more neither sounds of r»- 
joicing nor of woe. 

On every thoroughfare, the hundred* of tlags, national and for- 
eign, that are wont to be seen only on holiday anniversaries and grand 
festival occasions, when they flutter gaily at every breath of air as if 
themselves alive with cheerful spirit— now drooped everywhere at 
half-mast. Looped up in sombre crape, falling in listless, motionless 
folds, they mutely, yet deeply expressed the people's sorrow. 

Along the Levee, especially, was this etfeet produced. For miles 
the flags hung sadly from masts of steamships and .sailing vessels 
—from staffs of steamboats and other river craft.- It was a simple 
but fitting tribute from the men who live upon the waters and 
face sudden death in so many ways, all tlieir lives, to tlie memoi-y of 
the boy who had so longed to be a sailor ; and who, promoted to the 
highest command, had died at his post, with his hand on the helm of 
the ship of state. 

CRAPK ON THE DOOK. 

Besides these mourning demonstrations of a public, or official, or 
routine character, there was the still more significant exhibition of 
individual feeling, spontaneous and universal, that more than aught 
else gave convincing evidence of the people's sorrow. 

Early on Tuesday morning these signs of mourning appeared on 
all sides. There was no planning — no consultation. Each individual 
quietly attached to his or her door, or window, or balcony, a bit of 
crape, a black ribbon or rosette,— followed, later in the day, when more 
time had been given for preparation, by more elaborate designs, as 
wreaths of evergreen, portraits, garlands of immortelles, and mortuary 
inscriptions. 



30 inSTOKV OK THE . 

Tlu-si' iiisi.miia, of ouv kind or aiiotlitT, wore seen on every house, 
on every tlioroiiKl'tiU't'— <>"' ""' palatial rcsideuees that lined the broad 
aveiuies ol" the wealthier and more fasliiouable sections of the city ; oji 
tlie discolored and weather-l)eaten hovels, that in the mud streets and 
alley-ways, in the rear, gave shelter to the poorest of the poor. The 
railroad trains wore in i)rofusion long Ijands of black drapery; the 
street cars, the floats, the drays, tlie wagons, the hacks and carriages, 
dis})layed each their tokens of mourning. Even the luunble fruit and 
peanut stands at the street corners, and the small push-carts, had their 
itits of crajK'. Tlie humblest aiul i)oorest grieved ecjually with the 
magnat<'s of the land over the sad fate of tiu'ir President. 

Along the w'harves— in the foundries and machine shops— in the 
jiiills, presses and warehouses, the thousands of sous of toil, white and 
coloicd, were as proini)t and earnest as their employers to express their 
sorrow for him who had iiimself been a working/iuin — who had many 
:i tinu', like them, earned his liread l)y the strength and dexterity of 
his arm. They felt, every nuiu of them, that their President luul 
grandly illustrated the nohility of labor. 

The Imsiness comnuuiity, also, Joined with alacrity in testifying to 
tlicir regret for the President's untimely decease, for they were fauiilar 
witli the record of his brilliant services in the halls of legislation on 
(jnestions of the highest importance to commercial interests. 

t^othat, in the business portion of the city, by 9 o'clock A. M., luany 
stores had their shutters up, and some establishments closed entirely 
for the day. On all sides busy hands were at work putting up the 
emblems of mourning. This continued for two days, until every block 
of buililiugs in the comnu'rcial districts was arrayed in sable drapery. 
From necessity, the mighty wheels of commerce moved, but they 
moved in silence and gloom. 

HIS PORTRAITS. 

A prominent feature of the general display, especially in the 
counting rooms, shops and stores, was^the portrait of the murdered 
President, always with some emblem of mourning attached to it, and 
frequently also with mottoes and inscriptions, brief but touching, ex- 
pressive of deep regret for his sad fate and sincere respect for his 
nu'inory. 



FUNERAL CEREMONIES. 81 

Before one larj^e show-window on Cuiuil street, a crowd wasf;atliered 
all (lay. Tiie entire window was a mass of Mack. In its centre,— the 
only liglit si)ot in it— was a life-size i)icture of tiie di'ad I'residenl, :is 
he ai)i)e:ired wlien full of manly vigor. The crowd gazed in sad silence 
upon tlie familiar features, which it was so dilTicult to realize were 
now shrunken and cold in death. 

A similar gathering- wasassemhleil on tiie same street heloreanol her 
si>acious show-window that contained a strikingly end)leniatic tableau. 
In front was a large triangle of crape. [iack of this, was a vacant 
chair that rested on a Idack velvet platform, on which ai)peare(l, sur_ 
rounded by iiniiiortellen, the name of the dead chieftain. The national 
tlag, in mourning, hung behind the empty ciiair, from the top to the 
bottom of the window, and formed an appropriate i)ackground to (lie 
sadly imi)ressive group. 

THP: HOUI.KVARI) (ANA I 

Canal street, indeed, could liave been fairly selected that day as 
emblematic of the whole city. The broad avenue,— usually so gay, and 
lively, and crowded, — was none the less crowded now ; but a gloom 
pervaded the grand thoroughfare that was not easy to describe, but 
which was nevertheless deeply and widely felt. The sun shone brightly 
on lofty edifices and wide sidewalks and green trees ; and, looking 
from the river toward the distant swamp, there was life and color 
and movement as far as eye could reach. But as far as eye could reach, 
also, a strange spectacle was presented. Belts and bands and festoons 
of black, gleaming here and there with white, ran along from post to 
pillar, — leaped from doorway to window and gallery — climbed boldly to 
the highest roofs — swung across the widest facades, — and seemed liter- 
ally to swathe in funeral garb every row of the ma.ssive buildings. 

Their gloomy ai:)pearance that day was in startling, saddening 
contrast to the brilliancy they usually exhibit — especially when, with 
gorgeous decorations, they take part in the splendid pageants that so 
often make this Boulevard of the Crescent City a picture for the most 
gifted i^ainter's brightest pencil. It would have tasked a master in his 
art to fittingly present the grandly gloomy and sombre tableau of 
Canal street on " Memorial Monday." 



■A'2 HISTORY OF THE 

PROCEEDINGS OF PUBLIC BODIES. 



At 111 (I'clork on TiK'sclay luorainu: the Board of Directors of the 
(••I'TON ExcHA>!<iK— President Tiio.-<. L. Airey in the chair— deter- 
mined, " wiiereas, we iiave lieard with pain and regret of the death of 
rrcsident ( iarlield," that, "in respect to his memory the Exchange 
he <hai)ed in nioiiniiiig, and tliat it be also closed on tlie day of the 
fmieral." 

At a siilisctini'Mt ineeling, the Direi-tors resolved as a further mark 
of respect " to the memory of . lames A. Garfield, late President of the 
riiiled States." tiiat " tlie Kxcliangc be closed, to-day, immediately, 
and that the President appoint a Connuittee to draft resolutions ex- 
))ressive of t lie sincere regret of tlie Exchange at the public calamity 
involved in (liedeatli of President Garfield." 

Mr. Airey appointed as the Committee, Messrs. Adolphe .Schreiber, 
T. Jj. Ijyon and Ashton Phelps, who prepared the following resolu- 
tions, which were adopted by the Directors and given to the represent- 
ative of the Associated Press : 

Resofvcd, That the New Orleans Cotton Exchange desires to ex- 
j)ress tlie profound grief whicli its members feel in this solemn hour, 
wlieii the heavy hand of death has consummated the assassin's pur- 
pose. During the few months of General Garfield's occupation of the 
jiresidential <'hair his liberal, wise and conservative policy ; his broad 
and all embracing national spirit, his instinctive grasp and full com- 
preliension f)f our great political and financial problems had done much 
to inaugurate tliat more perfect union which his death to-day cements. 
Tile business of the nation will go onward and its prosperity remain 
uncliecked, although a great and good man has fallen at the post of 
(hity ; but it is to the patriotism and ability of men like our dead Pres- 
ident tiial the stability of our institutions is due. Throughout his long 
and painful illness President Garfield exhibited high courage and he- 
roic patience, only equalled by the sleepless devotion and undying 
faith of his lieioic wife. To Mrs. Garfield and her children— by this 
great tragedy rendered, in an especial sense, the wards of the nation — 
we tender our profound sympathy and respect. 

The Exchange closed at 11 o'clock A. M., and all business con- 
nected with it was suspended for the day. 

The members of the Produce Exchange met early on Tuesday 
inorning, President E. K. Converse in the chair, and adopted the fol- 
lowing resolutions: 



FUNEJUAL CKKEMONl KW. li'.i 



RrHofrrd, Tiuit this Exi*liaiij;o receives tlie news of tiie deatli of 
IMcsidont Garfield witii sentinieiits of i)r()f()uml sorrow ; and tiiat, in 
consideration of so ureat a national calaniity, it is ordered tliat iliis 
i^^xclianti^e I)e closed and drai)ed in inonrninji'. 

/i(S()/rrd, That in inrtiier expression of our sorrow, tills Kxchanj^e 
lie closed on the day of the funeral of t lie President ; it is reeoinniended 
(hat on that tlay luejuhers of this l)ody drape their business houses in 
mourning, and that business generally i>e suspended. 

A Conmiittee was then appointed, consisting of Messrs. K. K. Con- 
verse, L. H. Fairchild and A J. (iondla, to confer with the (Jotton 
Kxchange, Chandler of Coininerce and other coniniercial organizations, 
to draft suitable resolutions, exiiressing the sentiments of the business 
community at the nation's calanuty. 

At the first call of the Stock PLxcHANcii;, President Tje.Sassier in 
the chair, the members adopted the following Preamble and Resolu- 
tions, and immediately adjourned : 

Whereas, The not unexpected yet calamitous lilow has fallen upon 
the restored happiness and peaceful progress of the American iieojile, 
and I'resident James A. Garfield has been cut otTfrom a high career of 
patriotic usefulness by a fell deed which shocks all the nations of the 
earth with indignant horror; therefore be it 

Resolved, That the members of this Exchange manifest by outward 
symbols of mourinng, as they share in their inmost hearts, the great 
grief which is universal throughout our country, and that they espe- 
ciallyoffer to the noble wife and sorely stricken widow of the dead 
President their tenderest symimthy in this her hour of crushing afflic- 
tion. 

Resolved, That recalling President Garfield'^ patriotic promise and 
purpose as manifested in his inaugural message, we also remember that ; 

" Whpn our souls sliall leave this dwelling, 
The glory of one fair and virtuous action 
Is above all the 'scutcheons on our tomt), , 

Or silken banners over us." 

Resolved, Jiirthcr, That all business be suspended, the building 
appropriately draped and the Exchange adjourn. 

As has already been stated, the resolutions of the three Exchanges 
were promjitly and generally carried into execution. 

At the regular meeting of the Auxij^iaby Hanitaky Associa- 
tion on Thursday evening, September 22d, Vice President Edward 
Fenner in the chair, it was resolved, out of " resi)ect to the memory of 
the late President of the United States, James A. Garfield, and owing 
to the gloom prevailing over our entire country," to postpone all 
business and adjourn over to the next regular meeting, October 8th. 

The Board of Health held its regular weekly meeting on Thurs- 
day evening. No business was transacted. The President, Dr. J. Jones, 
•1 



'.U HISTOKV OF THE 

auiiiniiicfd tliat llif Hoani wmild adjourn out of respect to the iiiemoi'y 
of the late I'rcsidciil He said (iiat one oC (he hist messages penned hy 
till' ilcad cliicl' was one to tlie Jioard ot Heiiltli, which was couched in 
kind and coiirlcous terms. 

Mr. 1. N. ?>hiiks (lien otlered the fohowing, which was approved : 

Tile deatli oldie head of a great naticni is at all tiiiies, and under 
t lie most ameliorating circumstances a calamity; but when the disaster 
comes in tlie terrible guise of assassination, the event assumes a sliape 
that deprives luiman utterance of adecjuate expression. The manner 
of the deatli of James A. (lartield, the lionored President of tlie 
riiiled .-states, is as startling to the ])nbli(; nnnd as it is injurious to the 
national reputation. On no pijrtion of our country does tliis Itlow fall 
with such tcrribU- force as it does upon the South. The Southern i)eo- 
ple were united in the belief that had his life been spared, James A. 
( Jarlield would have been the President of tlie nation, though a leader of 
a party, and they were prepared to give him their cordial support and 
contidence. This mysterious dispensation of Pntvidence, therefore, 
badles human wisdom and dehes mortal scrutiny. A\'e can but bow 
with reverential submission to this irrevocable and stern decree. 

The State Hoard of Health of Louisiana, uniting with tht other 
jiublic institutions of the State, feel that it is their duty to give 
expression to their heartfelt sorrow for the nation's loss. Be it therefore 

/iV so/rrr/, That the State Board of Health of Louisiana, in common 
with the citizens of our entire land,sincei-ely deplore the great loss that 
mir united country has sustained. 

R( solved, That we tender to the distressed widow and children of 
the great dead the deep sympathies of this Board, and trust that the 
manifested love and devotion of lifty millions of freemen will in pari 
console them for their irreiiarable hiss. 

lirso/rrd, That this memorial bespread in full ui)on the minutes. 

At a meeting of the Nkw (Jki.eans Clearing Housk, President 
!•:. L. Carriere in the chair, on Friday, September 23d, it was deter- 
mined to suspend the business of the Bank, as far as possible, on Mon- 
day, liiitii of September, in order to give aji opportunity to those con. 
ncclcd with the various banking institutions to participate in the 
pid.lic funeral ceremonies, which, it liad been determined by the 
City Authorities, would be held on that day. 

At the mouthy reception of the YoiiNd Men's Christian Asso- 
ciAi'ioN, oil Tuesday evening, September 20th, Mr. William T. Hardie 
ill the chair, resolutions were adojited expressive of the profound 
r<gret with which (lu'sad news from Ellieron was received, and the 
reception was i)ostponed to the following week. 

Ai ih. iiiceting of Federal Officials, luadon the 2()th of .Septeui- 
Ipcr ill tin- ollicc of the Collector of Customs, and at which General 



Hadj^iT, Hon. ISIr. Diimoiit, Marshal Wliartoii and otlicrs were pi-cscnl, 

tlu' Ibllowin.i'- preamble and lesoUilions were adoitd-d : 

]\'/i< /-ras, The })e<)i)le of the I'nited Slates have heen called on lo 
lament the death of their chosen ( 'hii'f INIayistrate, and 

\V/i('ft((.s, The eminent public services oT the deceased Statesman 
and Executive were such as to place him on the pinnacle of tame l»y I he 
side of the most illustrious of the nation's I'residents ; therefore he it 

A'«.so//v (/, By the Itepuhlicans of the State of Louisiana, through 
their Executive Cominittee, that we join with the people ofoui' sister 
States, and with humanity throujihout the civilized world, in expres- 
sions of 2>rofound sorrow at the calamity which deprived tlie Repuhlic 
of a beloved President. 

Jie it farther rcHol red. That we deplore this loss not only in our 
collective capaoity but as individual citizens, and that we will forever- 
embalm in our hearts the name and memory of our de}»arted States- 
man and President. 

Be it further re.^otved, That we extend our sympathy to the 
bereaved wife of the illustrious deceased, his aged mother and sorrow- 
ing- children. 

The SUB-EXECUTIVK COMMITTKK OK THE REPUBLICAN STATE 

Central Committee met, Hon. W. M. Burwell, chairman, and 
adopted the followiug resolutions : 

Whereas, The fiendish act of an assassin has culminated in the 
death of James A. Garfield, President of the United States; and 

Whereas, The extraordinary civic virtues of tlie deceased Execu- 
tive render his untimely taking off a loss to be ranked by the side of 
the most illustrious deacl of all ages ; therefore, be it 

Resolved, That while we bow in humble resignation to the unseen 
hand that directs human affairs, we mingle our poignant grief with 
our fellow-citizens throughout the land. 

That we perceive in the nefarious manner by which our Chief 
Magistrate has been suddenly plunged from a career of remarkably 
brilliant activity, into the unknown world, a cause to foster with 
every rightful appliance the growth and perpetuity of our free institu- 
tions. 

That we will forever inscribe on the tablet of our memory the 
name of the deceased statesman who, with the immortal Lincoln, has 
furnished the world, in his life, the finest specimen of the outgrowth 
of our form of government. 

That we tender the stricken widow and dejected wife, the feeble 
mother and bereaved children, our deep and inexpressible sympathy 
in this the hour of their sorrow and of the nation's mourning. 

The Republican Parish Executive Committee, Parish of 

Orleans, Col. James Lewis, President, met at their Rooms, on the 22d of 

September and adopted the following : 

Whereas, The brutal hand of an assassin has robbed us of our 
beloved and honorable Chief Magistrate, James Abram Garfield ; 
therefore, be it 

Resolved, That we, the members of the Parish Executive Comr 
mittee, of the Parish of Orleans, and in behalf of the Republican 



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party (»(" said paiisli, how in (•lii'isaiicc to the will of the Divine 
I'l'ovideiice, rccliiii; and i<n()\\ int; as we do that "death loves u shining 
mark," and heinn coiinizant of'tlic many virtues of the lamented dead. 
For in word, in eonvei-sation, in charity, in sjjirit, and in i)urity he 
was a " shinin<4 inaik." Further 

lifHitlnd^ That we extend to his heroic and heieaved widow and 
orphan ciiildreii our uiitrameled sy]n])athy, and commend them to 
Him w iio "temj)ers the wind to the shorn lam I)," and who is "a husband 
to the widou and a fathtu' to the ori)han." 

What action was taken hy numerous othei' rei)resentative organi- 
zations, civic and nulitary, on receipt of the news of the Presi 
dent's death will ajipcai' in tiie Api^KNDix, in connection svith sketches 
of those Associations. 



AT JWV. C1T\- H ALL. 



At an early hour on the morning of Tuesday, .September 2oth, 
Mavoh Siiaksi'eark directed that all business be suspended in the 
various Departments of the ('ity Hall, and that the building be placed 
in mourning. 

The ordei' was promptly carried into execution the latter portioJi 
of it being superintended in |)erson by Administrator Guillotte, in 
charge of Public Puildings. The national flag was lowered to half- 
ma.st on the tall staff that risi's sky-ward from the ajiex of the temple- 
shaped ediliee; and vohnninous folds of sond)re drapery hung dowJi 
from capital to base of the lofty columns, classic in design, that 
front the Hall. 

Shortly after noon on Tuesday, the City C!oum-il assendile«l for its 
regular weekly session. Pre.sent : 

JNlAVoK Jos. A. SiiAKSi'KAUK, ])residing ; 

AuMiNisTRATOK K. T. \Val.shk, of the Department of Finance, 
Admini.stratoh AV. E. Htokk, of the Department of Accounts, 
Ai>ministhatoh VVm. F\\(iAN, of the Deiiartment of Commerce, 
Administkatok p. Mkai.ey, of the Department of Police, 
Ad.ministkatok Dki.amokr, of tiie Department of Assessments, 
Ai).MiNrs'i'KAT()i{ John Fitzi'atrick, of the Department of Im- 
provements, 

Ad.ministkatok .1. V. (ii'iLi.oTTK, of the De])artment of Public 
I'.uildings and Water Works. 



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Tlio Mayor, after tlio rallino- of the roll and readiiiij: of the nihmtes, 
said : 

" (Teiitleiiu'ii, we have tliis day been informed of tlie death of the 
President of our country. I tiiink this ( 'ouneij should take such action 
as will show our res))ecl for tlie departed and our great regret at the 
sad event." 

Whereujton Adniinist ralor Walshe presented a resolution, whicli 
was adopted, that as a mark of respect for the dead President, the 
Council, without transacting any business, would a<ljourn until the 
following day. 

Throughout the day, (juiet reigned supreme in tiie usually busy 
City Hall, tts numerous occupants, like those in the other public 
offices, — Fedei-al, State and Municipal,— shared in the feeling of gloom 
and sorrow tliat prevaded the entire community. 

The Mayor said subsequently, in a conversation with a journalist, 
that, tiiough not unexi)ected, the announcement of the death of the 
President had sliocked him almost as much as had tlie first news of 
the assassin's attempt. — " He could only express," he said in addition, 
" his sincere regret at the unfortunate termination of vvlnit had jtrom- 
ised to be a great career." 

Tlie Administrators joined in considering the President's death as 
a great calamity, especially to the South, where the beneficial effects 
of |his wise and liberal policy were already evident. — " He had proven 
himself to be the President of the whole country and not of a section," 
was the unaniiuous sentiment. 

CITY council's condolence. 

On Wednesday, September 21st, the Council again met ; and the 
following Resolutions, introduced by Administrator Walshe, were 
unanimously adopted: 

Wherea!^, The People of the City of New Orleans have received 
with deep and intense sympathy and grief the tidings of the death of 
James A. Garfield, late President of the United States ; and 

Whereas, It is deemed proper that due exxiression be made of our 
sorrow, and becoming honors rendered to the memory of the illustrious 
dead ; therefore, be it 

liesolred, By the Common Council of the City of New Orleans, in 
regular meeting convened : That in the death of James A. Garfield, 
late President of tlie United States, we mourn the deniise of a man of 



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liii;li ami t'xultfd iittaiiiinciits, of lofty pui'ijosi', of luajeatic strength ; 
ol a chief iiiaf;istrate whose serene self- res peet, geiitie dignity and 
det-p patriotism seem like a magieian's waud to have spread a bond of 
universal coiirKlence ;ind accord around a people divided by fears and 
prejudices and dissensions ; — of a statesman wh^se comprehensive 
grasp of heart and ndnd, enlightened Ity experience and study, 
responded as by intuition to the demands of ids " lugh office," through 
which lie promistMJ to raise our country to a iieight of digiuty, peace 
and hai»i)iness unparalleled in the history of nations. 

Jiisu/rti/^ That personally his memory should be revered as an 
example of that perlect manhood and individual development and 
su<-cess which are at once the possibility and pride of American institu- 
tions. 

Ji'f'fio/rrd, That our grief is deepened and our sorrow Intensitied by 
tlie untimely and unnatural manner of his ileatli, whieh entitles the 
bereaveil family of the deceased to all the comfort and consolation that 
the spontaneous sympathy of a nation can present. 

Jiisolvcd, That the sincerity of our sym])athy and resijeet be attested 
by such demonstrations of mourning and honor as are suitable to the 
event ; that all pultlic buildings be appropriately draped in symbols of 
mourning for a period of thirty days ; and that the people be invited 
to observe the day wliich may be tixed for tiie consignment of tlie 
remains of the lamented dead to their final resting place, as one of 
humiliation and prayer, by the suspension of all business, and the per- 
foiinance of appropriate religious rites and ceremonies in their respec- 
tive places of worship. 

/i'rso/rcd, That it is the sense of the City Council that on said day 
public obsecjuies be rendered in some formal inanner by the People of 
the City under the auspices of the City Council, at which all public 
a.ssociations, civil and military and religious, and the people at large, 
should be invited to participate ;— that the City Council be constituted a 
Special Committee, of which his Honor, the Mayor, shall be chair- 
man, to ascertain at once by connnunication with representatives of 
l)ublic organizations, in what manner and to what extent the intended 
ceremonies can be carried out,— with full power, in conjunction with 
such i)ublic organizations or societies, to make necessary arrangements, 
if it should be concluded to make such formal demonstrations. 

Jicsotved, 'j'hat a copy of these resolutions, duly attested, be trans- 
mitted with repeated expressions of sympathy and respect, to the hon- 
ored widow of the deceased, whose devotion and heroism at tlie bed of 
sullering exalted the sanctity of domestic ties and gained theaft'ection of 
every household in the land. 

Jif: it j'lirthrr rcNo/ofxl, That an attested copy of these resolutions 
be transmitted to the Hon. James G. Blaine, Secretary of State. 

MORE DIRECT ACTION. 

On Thursday inoinitig, the Mayor took the initiative in carrying 
these resolutions of the Council into practical effect. 

Invitations were issued by him, in his own and the Council's 
name, to the Officers of the various Civic, Keligious, and Military Or- 
ganizations to assemble that evening in the Mayor's Parlor, City Hall, 
for the |)urpose of consulting on the best method of paying the pro- 
posed tribute to the dead President. 



Tlii.s preliiniiuiry ineetiiiti' was lield :i( 7 o'clock P. M. Tliere 
were present the following' citizens: 

(tEN. a. S. Badgkk, C'ollector of the Toit ; 

Ma.i. (Jkn. W.J. Bejian, connnanding the First Division, State 
National Guard ; 

Bkkj'k (tEn'i. John Gi.ynn, Jr., coninianding the First Jirigade 
of the First Division, S. N. G.; 

Brig'k Gen'e AnoLrn Mevek, connnandinii the Second Brigade 
of the First Division, S. N. (t!.; 

Coii. John B Richardson, commanding tlie Washington Artill- 
ery Battalion, and President of the Louisiana Division, Benevolent 
Association, Veterans of the Army of Northern Virginia; 

Major John Auuustin, staft'of the C'rescent Regiment of Infan- 
try, and President of the Louisiana Division, Benevolent Association-, 
Veterans of the Army of Tennessee ; 

Cai'tain WiivLiAM Pierce, commanding the Continental Guards; 

Mr. R. S. Howard, Vice President, and Acting President of the 
N. O. Chamher of Commerce ; 

Mr. T. L. Airey, President of the N. O Cotton Exchange; 

Mr. E. K. Converse, President of the N. O. Produce Exchange ; 

Mr. E. Ij. Carrjere, President of the Citizen's Bank, and Presi- 
dent of the N. O. Clearing House ; 

Judge W. R. Whitaker, Grand Master of the Masonic Grand 
Lodge of Louisiana ; 

Col,. Fred. Hoi^YiiAND, of the Masonic Grand Consistory ; 

Mr. Thomas O'Connor, Chief p:]nginecr of the Fire Department ; 

Hon. C. F. Buck, Attorney of the City ; and 

Adnunistrators Wadshe, HuGER, Fitzi'ATRIck, Fagan, Guil- 
DOTTE, Mealey and Dei^amore. 

Mr. Theodore D. Wharton, of the N. O- Times statl", was a]j- 
pointed Secretary pro tern. 

Mayor Shakspeare took the chair, and opened the proceetliugs with 
these brief remarks : 

" Gentlemen, \ have called you together for the purpose of devising 
some means of showing our respect for the dead chief of this great na- 
tion. Beloved and res]3ected by his people, he was stricken down in 
the most dastardly manner, and we cannot do too much to show our 
great grief at his death and the high regard we entertained for him." 

Mr. Buck said : 

" The time is very short in which to make the necessary prepara- 
tions to commemorate the day of the burial of the President, and some 
action should be promptly taken to determine in what manner the day 
shall be observed. The (luestion is : the method and practicability 
of the Council's resolutions. At all events, the day should be commem- 
orated, and this is the first inception of the movement." 

Gen. Behan was of the opinion that : 

" Although but little time was allowed, still he considered that 
there were enough representative citizens present to inaugurate a pro- 
per movement. The military, he could confidently say, were ready to 



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lake |>ai-t ill aii\ piililir tnTciiiDii.v lliat mij^ht he agreed on. At all 
I'Vfiits. lio had iiili'iidi'd haviiiy salutes lired on the day of the Presi- 
ileiU's funeral." 

Gen. Badger suggested theadvisahility of having a funeral cortege. 

" He reinemltered that, at the funeral of President Taylor, many 
cities tlirougliout tlie eouiitry had demonstrations of tiie kind he sug- 
gested, in wliieli tlie diderent eivil, military and I'eligious organiza- 
tions partieipatt^d. He tiiougld it would he a good idea to liave some 
>iiiiilar eerenionial in New Orleans." 

Chief O'Connor said : 

" He Mas satisfied tliat any action tiiat migld lie (h'cided on at tiiis 
meeting would he universally approved, -so thoroughly aroused was 
I he piihlic mind on the sid)ject and so coneentrated on the propriety of 
tendering every evidence ol" respect possihle to the memory of tlie dead 
I'residi-nt. The Mayor could issue a proclamation, calling for a gen- 
eral ol)servance of the day. The Fire Dejiartment were ready and 
willing, at a nionunt's notice, to aid in any movement looking to the 
[iroper commemoration of the day on which the hurial of the President 
takes place." 

Col. J\ichar<lson otlered the use of the Hall of the Washington 
Artillery Arsenal, on 8t. Charles street, for any in-door ceremonial 
that might he determined on. His timely' offer was cordially accej)ted. 

Gen. Badger— after various suggestions had heen made and rejected 

—offered a resolution that : 

" The Mayor issue a proclamation for a grand funeral j)rocession on 
Monday, 2')tli Septend)er, in which all civic, military and other organ- 
izations should he invited to i)articipate ; and tliat tlie Mayor api)()inl 
the proj)er Committees to take cliarge of the i)rocession and all matters 
<'onnected with it." 

The resolution was adoi)ted un;inimously. 

The Mayor thereupon a[)pointed the following 

(iKNKRAIv committee: 

(ten. A. S. Badger, Gen. W- J. Behan, 

Judge W. R. Whitaktn-, Col. J. B. Richardson, 

('ol. Fred Holyland, Major John Augustin, 

Chief Thos. O'Connor, Capt. \Vm. Pierce, 

H. !S. Howard, Es((., E. K. Converse, Esq., 

'I'. L. Airey, Esq., E. L. Carri&re, Esq., 

selected from the citizens [)resent, and, in addition, the following: 

.Judge A. Ij. Tissot, of the Civil District Court; 

W. II. Lyman, President (Jrescent Insurance Company ; 

W. T Hardie, President Young Men's Christian Association ; 

F. Kickert, Presidi'ut (Jerman Aid Society ; 

I. N. Marks, President Firemen's Charitable Association ; 

F. Tujague, President L'Union Franyaise ; 

B. Kelley, State Delegate, Ancient Order Hibernians ; 



FUNERAL CEREMONIES. 41 



John Delaney, I'lcsideiit Workingmen's Association ; 

Captain Win. Koy, (Jrand Army of tlie Republic ; 

ilax Dinkenspiel, l^]sij., Attorney at l^aw ; 

(i. H. Faj^erweather, ex-Director City Public Scliools ; 

Col. James Lewis, President Republican I*arish Committee ; 

Hon. A. J. Dumont, U. 8. Naval Officer of the Port. 

On motion of .ludge Whitaker, the City Administrators were 
l»liU'ed on the (Teneral Conmiittee, of which Mayor Shakspeare was 
then made Chairman, and Administrator Walshe, Treasurer. 

Tiic Mayor tlien appointed the followinii' 

SUB-C().A[M1TTJ^KS : 

On ArraiKjf UK nt>i — Gen. W. J. Behan. cliairman ; Gen. A. S. 
Badger, Major John Augustin, Mr. W. II. Ijyman, and (Jhief Thos. 
O'Connor. 

On Finance— Mr. Thos. L. Airey, cliairman ; Messrs. E. L. Car- 
rit're, R. S. Howard, F. Rickert and E. K. Converse. 

Tlie Mayor, after tendering the use of his Parlor to the Committees 
tor their headquarters, authorized the Finance Committee to draw on 
the City Treasury for the sum of $2000 towards defraying the expenses 
of the i)roposed ceremonies. 

The meeting tlun adjourned to noon llie next day, Friday. 

A 1'KOC'L.AMATION. 

fn the papers of Friday morning, iSeptend)er 2od, the Mayor made 
the following official announcement: 

Whereas, Monday, the 2<ith instant, ha.s lieen designated as the 
day when the last sad rites of sepulture will be observed, and all that 
is 'mortal of the deceased President consigned to the tomb ; and 

Whereas, By Proclamation of President Chester A. Arthur, the 
said day has been set apart and all the peo])]e of the United States 
"recommended to assemble on that day in their respective places of 
Divine Worship, there to render alike their tribute of sorrowful sub- 
mission to the will of Almighty God and reverence and love for the 
memory and character of our late Chief Magistrate ;" 

Therefore, I, Joseph A. Shakspeare, Mayor of the City of New 
Orleans, do issue this my Proclamation, recommending to my fellow 
citizens, as a testimonial of their high appreciation for the martyr 
President, to abstain from their respective avocations on Monday, the 
26th instant, and that appropriate memorial services be held in the 
several churches of this city at the hour of 10 o'clock A- M. 

I further recommend that the flags be displayed at half-mast from 
the various public buildings and offices of foreign consuls and from 
the entire shipping in port ; that minute guns be fired from sunrise to 
sunset— the military officers in command being authorized to carry this 
order into execution — and that the civil and military oiganizationa of 



IL' HISTOUY OF THE 



tlic citv, :iii(l ;ill citi/.oiis iiol coniiectcd witli any suc-li organizations, 
iakf |»;irt in such furl luT solrinn i)ii,<^eaiit as may he determined on by 
tlic ,:;eneral "Conimitti'c of Anani^cments " ito he made known by 
."tlicial ainmuiifenieiit). in honor of tlie distinguisiied dead. 

JOS. A. SHAKSPEAKE, Mayor. 

IIIK SK('OXl) DAY. 

At noon, on Friday, at t lie ( 'ommitlee meetin.Lcin tlie May or '.s Parlor, 
tlic atli'ndanci' was lar<;e. tlic Officers of many Associations being 
present in resjioiise (o I lie Mayor's {)roclaniation. 

I'lie Mayor ca.iled tiie meeuiii;- to order; and Mr. W. .). McCali, 
Assistant Secn'tary of llic ( 'ily ( 'onncil, \vas appointed Secretary of tiie 
("omniilte(>. 

(ien'l [>ehan, ('hairmaii of tlie ('ommittee of Arrangements, re- 
ported that they liad been in session all the moriung, mapping out a 
proirramme for Monday's procession, and considerable i>rogress therein 
liad been made. A funeral car of elegant design had been ordered, and 
it was now in procews of eonstruction, under tlie superintendence of 
Mr. A. A. Maginnis, who had kindly volunteered his services. It was 
now necessary for the different Societies proi)osing to take ])art in the 
procession, to report, so that the (JoniTnittee might assign them to their 
appropriate positions. 

Thereupon the following Associations complied with this 
re<(uest, through their Offtcers : 

Free and Accepted Masons, by Judge Whitaker, Grand Master ; 

Knights Templar, by (}eo, Soul6, Grand Cominander ; 

Louisiana Division, Benevolent Association, Army of Noi'thern 
Virginia, by Col. J. B. Richardson ; 

liouisiana Division, Benevolent Association, Army of Tennessee, 
l)y Major John Augustin ; 

Grand Army of the Republic, by Captain Wm. Roy ; 

German Union Veterans, by Captain A. G. Graal ; 

Foreign and American Seamen^ by Rev. Dr. A. J. Witherspoon, 
Chajilain of the Upper Bethel ; 

Hibernia Benevolent Association, by Thos. J. B. Flynn ; 

Young Men's Benevolent Association, by J. W. Bryant ; 

Sons of Louisiana Benevolent Asssoeiation, by James Campbell ; 

Southern Benevolent Association, by Jno. H. Manuel ; 

N'oung Men's (lymnastic Club, by E. J. Gueringer ; 

Pelican B(>nevolent Association, by Judge A. L. Tissot and Dr. 
Dumeing ; 

Si)anish Union Beuevolent Association, by Thos. Jorda; 

St. Mary's German Benevolent Association, by N. Yochum ; 

Screwraen's lienevolent Association, by Jos. Lester ; 



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Cotton Yardmen's Association, by Administrator Mealey ; 

Claiborne Social Club, by T. J. Ford ; 

New Orleans Liedertafel, l)y E. J. Wenck ; 

Mitchell llirtes, independent company, by Lieut. H. F. Brennan ; 

Ex-U. S- Colored ►Soldiers' and Sailors' Association, by Col.. James 
Lewis. 

United Sous of Honor,— colored, — by VVm. Kenney ; 

Colored Men's Protective Union, by Hon. A. J. Dumont and 
J. Madison Vance. 

Each Officer, as he rose and reported, also stateil what number of 
men his Society would have in the jirocession. There were tMenty- 
three Associations thus reporting ; and the entire number of Societies 
that had so far promised to partici])ate in the procession, including the 
Firemen and the State National ( Juard, represented a total member- 
ship of over 8000 men 

It was evident that the whole city was aroused. 

A motion, by Gen. Badger, wa« adopted that the Mayor give notice 
through the newspapers to all Societies not yet reported, to inform him 
before noon on Saturday— the following day— if they intended to 
appear in the Procession, so that they miglit be assigned to their aj*- 
propriate Divisions. 

A motion, by Chief O'Connor, waa adopted, that the various organ- 
izations be requested to leave to the Committee of Arrangements the 
employing and distributing of the bands of music. 

On motion of Administrator Walshe, a Committee of Three was 
appointed to issue invitations to the Foreign Consuls, Federal, State 
and City Officials, Legislators, .Judges of Courts, the Clergy, and other 
distinguished personages.— Administrators Walshe, Delamore and 
Fagan were appointed on this com.inittee. 

The General Committee was, by resolution, increased by adding 
to its roll the names of the chief officers of the Associations just 
reported. 

The meeting then adjourned. 

At the Friday evening meeting in the Mayor's Parlor, the attend- 
ance was much larger than it was in the morning. Besides those who 
had already taken part in^the deliberations, a number of additional 
Associations were represented, and many prominent citizens were 
present, attracted by the general interest felt in the proceedings. 



n IIISTOUV <)1 THE 



The coiiiijositc nalurc ol" the iissonibluge uiul the earneBt, amieuble 
inaiiiier oI their iiilereoiirse, sti-ikinj^ly ilhistrated the political and 
social ciiaiii^es tiie war iiad brought about in tlie South. 

White men ami colond men, Deinocratsand i{e]iubiieaiis, ex-Union 
ami ex-Con federate veterans, native ixirn and foreign l>orn, tlie capi- 
talist and tlie workingman, the dark-eyed descendants of the old 
Fremli ;ind Sjianish colonists and tlie blue-eyed sons of the Anglo- 
Saxon race: all were represented in that one large room, and all 
lirouuht together in dignilied, genial coiisultali<)n by one common 
feeling of i^enuine manhood. 

When the looker-on saw chatting together, with smiling and atla- 
ble demeanor, the ex-Confederate otticer who had led the desperate 
charge of the White Leaguers on the famous " Fourteenth September," 
and the ex-Federal otticer, who had immediate command of the embat- 
tled Metropolitans, and met the charge until he fell desperately 
wounded — there could be no longer any doubt that the war was really 
over : that Louisiana was at last really at peace. 

After the meeting was called to order by Mayor Shakspeare, Gen. 
Behan rejiorted what the Committee of Arrangements had accom- 
plished so far ; and said that, from the outlook, the Procession prom- 
ised to be the largest ever had in New Orleans. 

The following additional Societies then reported, through their 
officers, their intention to pai'ticipate in the ceremonies on Monday : 

Lafayette Young Men's Benevolent As.sociation, by A. C. 
Brack man; 

Lee Mt)numental Association, by Captain W. I, Hodgson ; 
New Lusitanos Benevolent Association, by H. Pretus ; 
Pike Benevolent A.ssociation, by F. H. Robinson ; 
Longshoiemen and Grain Trimmers' A.ssociation, by Jas. Malloy ; 
Lnsitania Portuguese Benevolent Association, by John Mercadal ; 
Firemen's Charitable Association, Sixth District, by H. P. Phillips. 

The orticers so reporting were placed on the General Committee. 

On motion of Chief O'Connor,— approved by the Mayor, Gen. 
Badger, and others, — Mr. Al. Donnaud, journalist, was authorized to 
compile and publish a book, giving a full history of the memorial cere' 
monies ottered by the city to the memory of the dead President. 

Gen. Behan announced that it was designed by the Committee of 
Arrangements that the Procession in New Orleans should move on 



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Monday, 26th, at li o'clock P. M.— that heins: the hour dcHignated for 
the President's funeral at (icvclainl. 
The nieetinu,' thou adjourned. 

rHK KIRE FOREMEN. 

'I'Le Foremen of the Fire Engine Companies of the l^'irst, Second, 
Third and Fourth Districts, under Chief O'Connor's superintendence, 
(hen met in his office, in the City Hall, and endorsed his pledge that 
their Companies would take i)art in the Procession. They determined 
that the Department should (urn out in a body, in full uniform, but 
without their enjjines. They appointed the Hon. I. N. Marks as their- 
Marslial for the day. and authin-ized the Chief to invite the Fire De- 
partments of the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Distiicls to join with tliem 
in the celebration. 

THE THIRD DAY. 

The last meeting of the (ieneral Committee,— Mayor Shakspeare 
presiding,— took place on Saturday evening, 24th September. 

Gen. Behan reported for his Committee, that the preparations for 
the ceremonials of Monday were nearly all completed ;— bands of 
music had been secured and apportioned among the Divisions by Chief 
O'Connor ; the funeral ear was progressing rapidly to completion, as 
were the mourning decorations at theM'^ashington Artillery Hall ; the 
Hon. Mr. Buck had been selected to deliver the oration at the Hall ; 
and the services of several eminent clergymen promised for the deliv- 
ery of prayers and reading of Scriptural selections. 

The following additional Societies reported their intention to join 
in the Procession : 

French Mutual Benevolent Society', by Jos. LeBlanc ; 

French Democratic Club, by N. Bouvier ; 

Butchers' Benevolent Association, by P. Esteben ; 

Tiro al Bersaglio, Italian independent military conunand, by 
Capt. John Astredo ; 

Longshoremen's Benevolent Association, by Thos. Flaherty ; 

Ancient Order of Hibernians, by B. Kelley ; 

Firemen's Charitable Association, of Algiers, by B. Kelley ; 

Ship Carpenters' and Joiners' Association, of Algiers, by Wm. 
Jones ; 

Caulkers' Association, of Algiers, by John Smith; 

Central Hancock Club, by J. Pinckney Smith ; 

Italian Mutual Benevolent Society, by John Rocchi ; 

Young Men's Excelsior Benevolent Association, by E. Mestier ; 

German Ijouisiaua Draymen's Benevolent Association, by C. Kon- 
zelmann ; 



■4G JIISTOKY OF THE 



Sl.(Jc'orge's V<)uii,s< Men's Benevolent Association, by A. Schmidt ; 

St. Hiirtholoniew Italian Heiievolent Society, liy John Bertucci ; 

United Sciavonian BenevohMit Association, by John Radovich ; 

Grand United Order ot Odd Fellows — colored — by J. B. Gaudet; 

St. James Benevolent Association — colored — by J. Baptiste ; 

Colored Longshoremen's Protective Union, by N. Randell ; 

Screwmen's Benevolent Associati(m, Branch No. 2 — colored — by 
M. Sparks ; 

Magnolia liongshoremen's Benevolent Association— colored — by 
A. \Vhit<-: 

Cotton Vai'<hnen's Association— colored — by Major Brower; 

Teamsters' and Loailers' Assoc-iation — colored — by V. Champagne: 

Longshoremen's Protective Union, No. 2 — colored — by P. S. 
Jackson ; 

L'Avenir Mntual Aid Association— colored — by J. Amand ; 

Longshoremen's Protective Association — colored — by Thos. Smith ; 

Equal .Justice Marine Benevolent A.ssociation — colored— by W. 
Wilson ; 

Young and True Friends' Benevolent As.sociation — colored— by 
J no. Lewis. 

The officers reporting were placed on the (Jeneral Committee. 

Hon. Thos. Handy, ex-Sheritf", and Mr. R. H. Bartley informed 

the Committee that: 

" As it was evident there would be such an outpouring of the people 
on Monday as had rarely been witnessed here, and that it would be 
impossible to accommodate in any one Hall, however large, all wlio 
would desire to hear the oration— arrangements had been made for an 
open-air meeting, to be held after the procession ; a platform was being 
erected on South street, opposite Lafayette S(piare, and several eloijuent 
s}»eakers had promised to deliver addresses." 

xMessrs. Handy and Bartley expressed the wish that this arrange- 
ment should meet with the concurrence of the General Committee; 
and it was so determined. 

Mr. Airey, Chairman of the P'inance Committee, reported. 

l)u motion of Administrator WaLshe, there was appointed the fol- 
lowing 

COMMITTER ON RESOLUTIONS. 

A. H. May, cliairman; Judge W. W. Howe. Messrs. Wm. H. Re- 
naud, Joiin 1. Xoi)le, Clias. E. Black, Alex. T. Janin, Ashtou Phelps, 
\V. P.. Schmidt, I'hos. Handy, N. Dufour, Geo. Nicholson, M. F. Big- 
ney, Edward C. Wharton, H. J. Hearsey, J. Hassinger, E. A. Burke, 
Chas. Clinton, (j. K. Whitney, W. M. Burwell, H. C. C Astwood, and 
a. H. Fayerweather. 

This was certainly a representative Committee.— Mr. May was ou 

the Confederate stall' during the war, is a Democrat in polities, and is 

now the leading cotton merchant of this city. Judge Howe, an able 

jurist, much esteemed, was for a while on the State Supreme Bench, 



FUNERAL CEREMONIES. 17 

under the Repuhlicaii rcgimr. Messrs. Iveiiaud, N'oWle, Hluck, .laniii 
and Plielps are leadinfr eotton factors. Mr. Schinidt is one of our lar>?- 
est wholesale grocery merchants. Mr. Handy is an extensive liquor 
merchant. Judj^e Hurwell is tiu' .Secretary of the Chaniher of Com- 
merce, Receiver in the U, S. I^and ottic^e, and one of the ahlest writers of 
the day on commerce, railroads, etc. Mr. Kayerweather, late of (he City 
School Hoard, is one of the most intelligent and icspected of our col- 
ored citizens. Mr. Astwood, a well educated coloretl man, is the editor 
of ex-(iov. Pinchback's |)ai)er, the " Ijouisianian." The other mem- 
i)ers of the ( -ommittee are or have been connected with the Daily Press 
of the city as proi)rietors or writers. Major Burke, an ex-(Jonfe<ierate 
stafl' officer, Ijesides being the managing editor of tlie N. O. Democrat, 
is also the State Treasurer. 

After the ai)pointment <jf this Special Committee, the (General 
Committee adjourned ; but the members of the Committee of Arrange- 
ments were busily engaged until a late hour, in drawing up an 
extensive and elaborate Programme for Monday's ceremonial, for 
])ui)li(*ation in the Sunday morning papers. 

THK FOURTH DAY. 

By appointment, the Committee of Arrangements met in the 
Mayor's Parlor, at the hour of noon, the Marshals and their Aids 
apjiointed for the Procession. 

After issuing the final instructions, Uen. Behaii said he could not 
refraiiKfrom congratulating his listeners on the prospects for a funeral 
pageant commensurate in its numbers and its cosmopolitan features 
as well with the solemn character of the memorial celebration as with 
the dignity and power of the metroi^olis that offered such splendid 
tribute to the memory of the dead President. 

The Committee then adjourned, having successfully accomi)Iished 
in a very brief period, at very short notice, a task that can be appreci- 
ated only by those familiar with such onerous labors. 

THE city's committee. 

Mayor Sbakspeare, Administrator Walshe and Administrator 
Huger were occupied until a late hour of the night, in the Mayor's 
Parlor, in pei'fecting the multitudinous details of the ceremonial of 



IS HISTORY OF THE 



.Monday at tlic Washington Artillery Hall, wliich was their special 
charyr ; pn-paring a list of V^icc l^residents and Secretaries; appointing 
a Committee of Reception ; arranging for vocal and instrumental 
imisic : drawing up a programme of the order of exercises ; pre])aring 
and sending all this to the Press, etc. 

In tiiis labor the tliree Otticials were zealously assisted by Mr. A. 
McConnell, tlie INIayor's private secretary ; Hon. E. L. Bower, chief 
clerk of the Mayoralty Bureau ; Mr. Kobert McLaughlin, his assistant ; 
Mr. iNIcCall, assistant secretary of the Council; and Messrs. T. Lee 
Shute and F. S. Kendig, of Aihninistrator Walshe's clerical corps. 

TlIK city's (U'ESTS. 

Invitations to the ceremonies at the Washington Artillery Hall, — 
stilt fo]|li by the City Council's Special Committee, through Adminis- 
trator Walshe, as Chairman — were addressed to the Foreign C'onsuls ; 
to the Clergy ; the Governor and his Staff"; tlie Lieutenant Governor ; 
the other State Officials in tlie City; the members of the Judiciary, 
lioth Tarish and State ; the Parish members of the Legislature; th<' 
Board of Police Commissioners; the Board of Underwriters; Board of 
Health; Board of School Directors; Medical and other Scientific 
Societies; the Parish and City Officers generally; the Veterans of 
ISlL'-l-"); the Mexican War Veterans; the Officers of the Chamber of 
Commerce, Cotton Exiiiaiigc, Stock Exchange, Produce p]xchange, 
and Clearing House; the mend)ers of the City Syndicate; y,ll the 
Federal OlVicials ; the Otlicers of the Army and Navy; the Otlicers of 
tbe ['lilted States Lighthouse Department ; the Bank Presidents; the 
Insurance Presidents; the members of the Press; and, especially, the 
members of the Mississijipi River Coniniission, then on an inspect- 
ing tour in the " Delta." 

'I'he invitation was neatly jjrinted on light-green tinted note paper, 
witli mourning edge. It was enclosed in a plain envelope, also edged 
in black, wliich contained, besides a printed programme of the Obse- 
(|uie3, a small white silk mourning Viadge, presenting the portrait of 
tbe deceased President, with this brief inscription : 

"DiKD, September 19th, 188L" 



FUNERAL CEKEMONIES. 



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Committee of Invitation on behalf of 

CITY COUNCIL 



50 HISTOKY OF THE 



Till' note, the hadge, the progrcimrue, will doubtless be retained by 
the recipients of the City's courtesy for years to come, as simple but 
ever speaking mementoes of a day and events of deep interest and 
peculiar importance, not only in the City's history, but in that of the 
whole country. 

FR(>M THE SCHOOLS. 

This portion of the record is appropriately terminated by the 
Resolutions prepared by Hon. W. O. Rogers, the accomplished and 
esteemed iSuperintendent of the City Public Scliools, and unanimously 
ailopted by the Board of Directors at a special meeting, held on Satur- 
day morning, September 24th : 

" The Hoard of Directors of the I'ublic Schools of the City of New 
Orleans, mindful of the great calamity which has overtaken the 
country in the death, by assassination, "of the Honored President of 
a free, united and happy people, and recognizing in the character and 
public services of the lamented deceased— an earnest friend of educa- 
tion, a statesman of liroad and liberal views, a sciiolar of cultivated 
intellect, a patriot seeking the welfare of the whole community, a 
chief magistrate justly entitled to the respect, confidence and afrection 
of all men —do hereby resolve — 

" First, That we. with the great body of citizens all over the 
country, join in lamenting the death of James A. Garfield, and in 
paying our trilnite of respect to the memory of his virtueS; his talent 
and Ills lofty purposes for the general good ;* 

"Second, That we extend to the bereaved fa?nily our warmest 
sympathy, and the afiectionate interest and sympathy of the large 
body of teaciiers and school children whom we herein re'present; 

" Third, That the Public Schools of the City be closed on Monday, 
the2Hth inst., in furtherance of the proclamation of the Governor of 
this State and the Mayor of the City; and that the teachers and 
advanced pupils of the Schools, be and are hereby requested to join, 
as far as practicable, in the public memorial services appointed for 
that day. ^ ^ 

"Fourth., That these Resolutions bespread upon the minutes of 
this Board, and a copy of the same forwarded to the Family of the 
Deceased and the Secretary of State." 

No more lilting tribute could be paid to him, whose life-career was 
the most fitting tribute to the inestimable advantages of education. 

mia'TENAN'!' GOVKKNOR m'KNKKV 

had, as .\cting (Tovernor, telegraphed Secretary Blaine, on Tuesday 

morning. September 20th, asking when the funeral obsequies would 

take place, in order that he might direct concurrent action in Louisiana. 

'I'lu- reply was the dignified and feeling Proclamation of the new 



President, the Hon. Chester A. Artliur, desginating Monday, JSeptember 

26th. and in highly appropriate terms, calling upon the people of the 

whole country to observe it as a day of humiliation and niouniing. 

Thereupon, Ijieut. Gov. McEnery issued the following l'r<)«!lania- 

tion : 

Executive Department, 8tatk of Loi'isiana, 1 
New Obleans, September 21st, 1881. j 

Whereas, The President of tlie United States of America departed 
this life on the 19th day of September, 1881 ; and, whereas, the sad event 
has stricken the people with universal sorrow and mourning; and 
although in this manifestation of Divine Providence we should submit 
with becoming meekness and reverence, yet, as a people, we should 
outwardly express our sorrow and grief at this public calamity : 

Now, therefore, I, Samuel D. McEnery, jLieutenant (iovernor, 
and acting Governor of the State of Louisiana, do appoint Monday, 
the 26th day of September, being the day set apart for the funeral obse- 
quies of our lamented President, as a day of fasling and prayer through- 
out the State ; and I invite all religious denonunations to hold mem- 
orial services in their respective places of public worshij), and recom- 
mend that all persons do assemble thereat, on «aid day, to participate 
in said services. All places of public business M'ill be closed and the 
flags on all public buildings will be placed at, half-mast throughout 
the State. 

While deeply mourning the Republic's great calamity and devoutly 
praying for the favoring providence of the Ruler of Nations, let the 
bereaved widow and her orphaned children be likewise remembered. 

S. D. McENERY. 
Lieutenant Governor and Acting Governor. 



MEMORIAL MONDAY. 



This record opened with the words that " Saturday, July 2d, A. D. 
1881, will ever be a memorable— a sadly memorable day, in the annals 
of the great Republic." 

A like record can justly be entered for Monday, September 26th, 
A. D. 1881. The horrid tragedy that had begun two days before the 
advent of the National Holiday, was now to terminate with a Nation- 
nay, with the whole civilized world participating, in spirit if not in 
bodily presence, in the last, solemn mortuary scene. 

A funeral procession, so simple yet so grand, was never witnessed 
before. It began at the sea-side, where the august victim had breathed 



52 HISTOKY OF THE 



his last. It paused awhile in the Federal City where, living, he had 
won so many triumphs. It paused there long enougli to permit the 
widowed wife to keep a final vigil with her dead,— alone with liim 
beneatli the majestic dome of the Capitol, — alone to recall the past, and 
to imprint the farewell kiss on the pallid, pain-stricken face. — Then 
again it moved on, by day and night, in sad silence,— looked for 
and gravely greeted, for hundreds of miles, by multitudes of mute 
mourners. 

And now this unique procession had reached the end of its melan- 
choly journey. The quiet cemetery of the beautiful city by the Lake 
shore — trod for the first time many, many years before by the poor 
boy, James A. Garfield, longing for a lifecareeron the restless waves — 
now awaited only the last notes of the funeral dirge and the last words 
or the funeral prayer, ere receiving for everlasting rest the mutilated 
remains of the man, James A. Garfield, President of the United 
States of America. 

The echoes of this slow, prolonged death-march from the Ocean to 
the Lake, had dail3^ jjenetrated into every household, and edifice, and 
mart in the Crescent City. The feelings of sympathy and regret so 
created, were so deep and true and all pervading that when the Mun- 
icipal Authorities of New Orleans announced their determination to 
tender to the illustrious dead a public memorial ceremony worthy of his 
high station and his own great merit, the approving reply was instan- 
taneous and unanimous from a quarter of a million of warm hearts. 

How their reply was given form and action on Monday, Septem- 
ber 26t}i, will now be set forth in detail. 

The day was ushered in by frowning skies and a heavy rain, in 
consonance with the gloom that oppressed the public mind. This did 
not, however, delay in any way the arrangements, private and public, 
to carry out the observances and ceremonies indicated in the proclama- 
tion of President Arthur; that of the Acting Governor of the State, 
the Hon. S. D. McEuery, and that of Mayor Jos. A. ShaksjDeare, — and 
further specifically set forth in the programme of the Committee of 
Arrangements. 

There was a marked increase in the display of mourning insignia, 
especially along the streets that were to witness the passage of the pro- 



FUNERAL CEREMONIES. 53 



cession. Business was everywhere suspended. Shops, stores, counting- 
rooms, warehouses, factories and foundries were closed. The streets 
were noiseless. The general quiet was brolicn only by the occasional 
toll of a bell, now here, now there— from fire-alarm tower or church 
steeple— or, at measured interval, by the deep-mouthed cannon's sullen 
i-oar,— responding, bell and cannon, to the funeral chimes and salutes 
of the other cities of the Union. 

MORTUARY SALUTES. 

In compliance with the Mayor's proclamation, the Committee of 
Arrangements had mortuary salutes fired throughout the day, both 
above and below Canal street, and at the head of that central avenue, 
near the river. 

Above Canal street, the salute was fired by a detechment of Capt. 
Jno. Miller's Company B, Battalion of Washington Artillery. The 
detachment was stationed at the corner of Baronne and Delord streets, 
and was composed of Sergeant W. E. Hogue, Corporal H. J. Levy ; 
Privates W. Giflfen, S- H. Dougall, Dan. Kelly, A. R. Barrett and J. 
P. Gallaher. At the opening, Captain Miller commanded in person, 
but was relieved later in the day by Lieut. O. F. Peck. The first gun 
was fired at 6 o'clock in the morning, and a gun was fired every fifteen 
minutes thereafter throughout the day, until 6 o'clock in the evening. 

Below Canal street, the salute was fired in the Place d'Armes (in 
the olden time, Congo Square) by a detachment of Battery C, Capt. 
Fortier, Regiment of Louisiana Field Artillery. The detachment was 
as follows: Corporal Fred. Kornbeck, gunner; Privates S. Baudier, 
E. Peralta, E. J. Soniat, E. Bercegeay, Geo. Item and C. Calongne. 
The first gun was fired at 7 o'clock A. M.; then every half hour until 2 
P. M.; and then every fifteen minutes until sundown. 

At the head of Canal street, the salute was fired by a detachment 
of the Orleans Artillery Battalion, Company E, Capt. A. Sambola. 
Thedetachment was composed of First Sergeant P. Forget, Jr., com- 
manding; Privates D. Andrew, D. Anatasse, W- Winnecher and Jno. 
Faulstick. A gun was fired every hour from 6 A. M. to 12 M., and 
then every fifteen minutes until twenty-seven minutes after 1 o'clock P. 
M., when a special salute was fired in honor of the late President. 



54 HISTOEY OF THE 



PRESIDENTIAL SALUTE. 

At 27 minutes past 1 o'clock P. M., in New Orleans it was 2 o'clock 
P. M , in Cleveland— the hour at which the funeral cortege of the dead 
President was to begin its march to the cemetery of the city by the 
Lakeside. 

By preconcerted arrangement, just before the hour specified, the 
Officers and Members of Mower Post No. 1, Grand Army of the Re- 
public, marched from their headquarters on Decatur street, and drew 
up, in company front, under the command of Lieut. F. W. Gibson, 
immediately in the rear of the artillerymen and their piece. Then, at 
the precise moment the funeral cortege at Cleveland began its slow 
march, Lieut. Gibson, a one-armed veteran, gave the order to com- 
mence firing. The signal was promptly sounded by the boy bugler, 
B. Peyrone — a lad of seven years— son of the Orleans Artillery bugler. 
The artillerymen, — some of whom had worn the "gray" and the 
others the " blue "—gave answer on the instant with the cannon's 
flash and smoke and roar, until a funeral salute of twenty-one guns 
was fired. Then the Post marched back to their headquarters ; and 
the artillery detachment resumed its hourly salute until sundown. 

IN THE CHURCHES. 

Despite the inclement weather the attendance at the churches was 
large ; and in many of the sacred edifices the services were of a char- 
acter to more than usually impress the congregation. 

Episcopal.— At Trinity Church (founded by the late Bishop 
Leonidas Polk) the Rev. I. N. Marks, Jr., officiated in the absence from 
the city of the Rector, the Rev. Dr. Hugh Miller Thompson, The 
reading desk, stalls, and chancel railing were artistically draped in 
black and white. The communion table was decorated with a band- 
some black mantle, embroidered in silver vines, and in the centre of 
the mantle appeared, in bold relief, a cross and wreath of silver. The 
ceremonies began at 11 o'clock. A large congregation was present. 
Among them were Lieut, and Acting Governor S. D. McEnery ; Sec- 
retary of State, W. H. Strong; State Auditor, Allen Jumel ; and, in 
uniform. Col. T. Lee Shute, Col. E. A. Ducros, Col. C. A. Larendon, 
and Maj. E. E. Wood, of the Governor's staff. The sermon of Rev. 
Mr. Marks was scholarly and impressive, and was listened to with 
profound attention. 



FUNERAL CEREMONIES. 55 



Rev. Dr. Hedges first oflBciated at 8 o'clock, A. M., at his own 
church, Mount Olivet, in Algiers; and then at 10 A. M., in 8t Paul's 
Church, on Camp street, in place of the Rector, Rev. Mr. Waters, 
who was absent from the city. 

Rev. Dr. J. F. Girault conducted the services as Rector, at St. 
Anna's Church, on Esplanade street. 

At Trinity Chapel, on Houth Rampart street, tlie Rev. Mr. Wiggins 
officiated. 

Rev. Mr. Upton conducted the services at St. George's Church. 

At the Free Church of the Annunciation, on Camp street, in the 
absence from the city of the Rector. Rev. Dr. Jno. Percival, Mr. 
Richard Rhodes, of the Vestry, acted as Lay Reader. 

At St. Philip's Church, corner of Prytania and Calliope streets, 
for Colored Episcopalians, the Rev. Dr. C. H. Thompson officiated. 

CATHOiiic. — The general custom of the Catholic Church is that no 
masses are said, or public services held, or mourning drapery displayed 
in the sacred edifices, for those who die outside of the Catholic faith. 

However, the venerable Archbishop Perch^, — who is as zealous a 
patriot as he is a zealous churchman, — authorized his Clergy to keep 
their Churches open on "Memorial Monday," and to notify their con- 
gregations that all who desired it, could, — either at the usual services 
or at any other time during the day, — " recite prayers for the repose of 
the soul of the dead President." « 

This was done in all the numerous Catholic Churches and Chapels, 
— the notice being given out by the clergy on Sunday morning. 

Furthermore, at the Archbishop's episcopal residence, on Chartres 
street near Ursulines, by his order, the wide portal, giving entrance 
from the street to the inner-court, was tastefully draped in mourning ; 
and by his order also, the bell tolled from the belfry of St. Mary's 
Church, adjacent to the residence, and known for many successive gen- 
erations, ever since the colonial (Jays, as the " Archbishop's Church." 

At the old Cathedral, on Chartres street, fronting the Place 
(TArmes, the bells — which, twice within the century, had rung out joy- 
ous peals when first, Jackson, and then Taylor, was received within 
the sacred edifice with jubilates— now, throughout the day, tolled 
mournfully, from hour to hour, a requiem for the murdered successor 
of those warrior-occupants of the White House. 



56 HISTORY OF THE 



At the Church of tlie Inniiueulate Conception (Jesuits' Church), 
on liaronne .street (.-orner of Coniuion, the altar was draped in mournT 
iiig, and at K) o'clock A. M., mas^ was celebrated by Rev. Father D. 
Hubert, — who, during the war, was Chaplain of the Louisiana regi- 
ments in (Jen. Lee'.s army, and is now the Chaplain of the few hun- 
dreds left of those veterans, composing the Louisiana Division, Benevo- 
lent Association, Army of Northern Virginia. 

At 8t. Patrick's Church,— on (,'amp street near Girod, — High 
Mass was said at llr.SO A. M., for the repose of the soul of the dead Pres- 
ident, — the Rector, Rev. Father P. Allen, being the celebrant: Rev. 
Father P. M. L. ilassardier, Rector of St. Theresa's Church, acting as 
First Heacon, and his a,ssi.stant Rector, Rev. Father J. E. Lambert, as 
Sub-Deacon. 

The three churches of the Redemptorist Fathers, up-town,— St. 
Alphonsus (English), corner of Constance and St. Andrew streets; St. 
Mary's Assumption (German), corner of Josephine and Constance 
streets ; and Notre-Dame de i^on Secours (French), on Jackson 
street near Constance — did special honor to the memory of the de- 
parted President. In each church a catafalque, supporting a coffln, 
was placed in the centre aisle, near the altar; and a solemn High Mass 
for the Dead was celebrated at 8 o'clock A. M. The celebrant at St. 
Alphonsus was the Rector of the three churches, the Very Rev. B. A. 
Neithart; at St. Mary's Assumption, the Rev. Father Kelaphake ; and 
at Notre Dame, the Rev. Father H. Giesen. Also at the 8 o'clock and 
10 o'clock services on Sunday morning, Rev. Father Neithart, in his 
addresses to the congregation, referred in feeling terms to the death of 
President Garfield. 

PKKSBYTERIA^^— On Sunday morning, September 2oth, the Rev. 
Dr. B. M. Palmer, Pastor of the First Presbj'terian Church (on South 
street, opposite Lafayette Square), delivered one of his most impres- 
sive sermons,— combining in his peculiarly felicitous style, eloquence 
with logic. The text was from Daniel, 4tli chapter, 17th verse: 

" This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by 
the word of tiio liolyones; to the ititoiit that the living may know 
that tlie Mo.st High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to 
wiiomsoever he will, andsetteth up over it the basest of men." 

The deceased President's lofty character and brilliant intellect,— 
ills unfaltering Christian faith,— his pure, tender domestic life,- his 



FUNERAL CEKEMONIES. 57 

just elaiiii as the representative of the loftiest and best qualities of 
American life, — his unaftected cheerfulness and heroic fortitude under 
prolonged suffering,— his deep hold on the affections of his own people 
and the admiration of the people of other lands, — were tersely but most 
eloquently and strikingly presented. i 

. On Monday morning, this church was draped in simi)le mourning 
and a service of prayer, hymns and Scripture reading was lield. 

The Lafayette Church, on Magazine street near Philip, — Rev. Dr. 
Thos. R. Markham, Pastor, — was tastefully dressed in mourning both 
outside and in, — the black drapery emblematic of sorrow, — the green, 
of hope. The church was crowded. The memorial address of the 
Pastor was eminently worthy of the occasion,— furnishing from the 
national calamity practical lessons, worthy of the nation's study. 

A memorial service was held at 10 A. M., in the German Evangel- 
ical Church, corner of Jackson and Chippewa streets, the Rev. Dr. 
P. Heintz, Pastor. The bell was tolled all day. 

Methodist. — The various congregations of the M. E. Church, 
South, held a union service at the McGehee Church, on Carondelet 
street near Girod, Rev. F. R. Hill, Pastor. 

The interior of the spacious edifice was draped in mourning. 
Every seat was occupied. The opening prayer was by Rev. Dr. 
Parker, Pastor of the Felicity street Church, and very feelingly 
alluded to the loss the nation had sustained. Rev. Dr. Matthews, of 
the 8t. Charles street Church, dwelt upon the dead President's history, 
ironi his boyhood up, as an excellent example for the young genera- 
tion to follow. The address of Rev. Dr. J. B. Walker, Presiding 
Elder of the District, was of the same tenor; as was that of Rev. Dr. 
Kranter, of the German M. E. Church. The love of General Garfield 
for his mother was eloquently depicted by Rev Dr. Hill, as the keystone 
of his success in life. 

Memorial services were held at the Ames M. E. Church, corner of 
St. Charles and Clio streets, under the leadership of the Pastor, Ruv. 
Wm. C. Webb. The attendance was large. The church entrance was 
hung with long, wide streamers of black, and the altar was similarly 
decorated. 



r»<S HlSTOKV OF THE 

Thk .Synagoguks-— At the Temple Sinai, there was a crowded 
awrteiiibly to listen to the line choir and splendid organ, tlrst in an 
ancient Hebrew funeral chant and then in a hymn composed specially 
for the occasion h^ Prof. (). Weber A eulogy on the deceased Chief 
Kxecutive was delivered l)y the iiabbi, the Rev. Dr. Jas K. (iuthei)n, 
that was eloquent with patiios and high-toned thought. 

At the Touro Synagogue, the congregntion was also large. The 
Kev. Isaac H. Leucht, llal)l)i, officiated. Tiie 42d Psalm was read; 
then President Arthur's proclamation, setting- asi<ie the day as one of 
public mourning and worsliip. Selections were read from Jeremiah 
and Samuel ; and a prayei- and the benetiiction closed the services. 

Services were also held by the Lcvy -Readers at the Gate.s-of-Prayer 
Synagogue, on Jackson street near Animnciation. and tiie Right-Way 
S.ynagogue, on Carondelet street near (lirod. 

Mourning drapery was displayed in all four Synagogues. 

Skamen's Bethel.— At the neat little chapel on St Thomas street 

near Jackson, founded and maintained by the unfaltering zeal of Rev. 

Dr. A. J. Witherspoon, there was a large gathering of the otticers and 

crews of vessels in port, foreign and domestic. Several hymns were 

sung : the iiHth Psalm was read as the lesson of the day ; and prayer 

followed. Then, in his characteristically clear, simple style.. Father 

Witherspoon— an ex-Confederate Chaplain— delivered an address 

practical, logical and feeling. 

" The death of Garfield," he said, " was like the death of Samson : 
it pulled down and destroyed the house of Dragon of sectional strife, 
engendered by the late dreadful civil war.— Garfield's inaugural 
breatlied new life for the whole country.— He stepped boldly away 
from the battle fields to the task of effectually reuniting North and 
South, East and West. His death has accomplished that task, so 
worthy of the statesman and the patriot. The whole country is in 
sorrow around his tomb ; let it turn thence to dwell together in bonds 
of peace for ever !" 

A warm eulogy of the dead President followed, the preacher 

specially praising him for " never going back on his religious faith." 

The address closed with the quaint remark : 

"The two men who assassinated American Presidents were 
neither of them from the South, and neitlier of them was a sailor." 

The Colored Churches.- Besides St. Philip's Episcopal Church, 

already mentioned, special services were held in many other churches 

attended by our colored citizens. 



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In Winan'.s IMethodist Chapel, Rev. H. Priestly, Pastor, on Thurs- 
day evening, Septemher 22d, when memorial resolutions were adopted. 

On Sunday evening, September 25th, in the Union Methodist 
Chapel, Rev. A. E. P. Green, Pastor. The proceedings were " commem- 
orative of the life and services of President Garlield " 

An address of similar tenor was delivered l)y Rev. liobert H. 
Slaughter, at the First Free Mission Church. 

Impressive ceremonies took place at the St. James M. K. Chapel, 
Rev. Alfred M. Green, Pastor. The programme had been carefully 
prepared on Wednesday evening, 21st of September, by a Committee 
of the Literary Association connected with the Chapel. The interior 
of the edifice was neatly and tastefully draped in mourning, extending 
around the pulpit, altar and galleries. At .the appointed hour, 10:30 
A. M., a large audience was assembled. Then, by appointment, the 
Officers and Members of the " Ex-U. S. Colored Soldiers' and Sailors' 
Union Association" entered and occupied the centre rows of seats. — 
Mr. W. R. Mason then called the meeting to order, and the following 
Officers were appointed : President, Rev. A. M. Green ; Vice-Presi- 
dents, Mrs. E. Cooper, Col. James Lewis and Mr. E. Lyons ; Secreta- 
ries, Miss. E. M. Howard, Messrs. H. C. C. Astwood, C. J. Dowden, W. 
8. Wilson, Walter Thompson and Edward Thompson. 

The presiding officer briefly explained the objects of the meeting ; 
alluding to the deaths of Presidents Harrison, Taylor and Lincoln ; 
narrating the dramatic incidents of President Garfield's death ; and 
paying a warm tribute of regret and respect to his memory. 

He was followed in eulogies by Mr. J. D. Kennedy, Mr. Ernest 
Lyons and Gen. R. B. Elliott,— the latter referring in feeling terms to 
his personal acquaintance with the President during four years' ser- 
vice with him in the U. S- House of Representatives. 

Anthems were ^sung by the Choir in the intervals between the 
addresses. The resolutions of eulogy and regret, previously adopted 
by the St. James Literary Association, were reaffirmed by the assembly, 
which then rose and, led by the Choir, sang the doxology. The cere- 
monies then closed with the benediction, pronounced by Rev, Mr. 
Albert, of Union Chapel. 



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GATHERING OF THE CLANS. 

T5y noon, the services in the churches and cliapels were over ; the 
rain had stopped; the dark clouds had disappeared; the sun shone 
out ; tlie sky was blue and cleai\ Then, from all parts of thegreatclty, 
came crowds of men, women and children, moving toward the central 
streets whicli were to witness the jmssage of the procession. Taking up 
position along the sidewalks, they waited patiently for hours for its ap- 
pearance They numbered, thus assembled, thousands upon thous- 
ands. They came from points miles upon miles apart from each other : 
from Algiers and Gretna and their adjacent suburbs, across the wide 
river— from the distant Lake shore suburbs and the interme- 
diate settlements.— from Carrollton, the upper extremity of the city, 
six miles aboveCanal street, and from the Slaughter-House, the old Con- 
vent and the U. S. Barracks, six miles below it, — from every square 
of the "ancient city," between Esplanade and Canal sti'eets, founded 
by Bienville and his hardy French colonists, — from the ancient Third 
Municipality, or District, below Esplanade,— and from the newer 
Districts above Canal street, founded by the push and pluck, and made 
prosperous and powerful by the energy and enterprise of the Anglo- 
Saxon race. 

It was such an outpouring of the people of New Orleans as is 
rarely witnessed even for the brilliant spectacles that at certain seasons 
of the year — especially in the Carnival time — crowd her thoroughfares 
with a host of joyous and laughing spectators. The host was there 
now ; but it was silent and serious. The solemn tolling of the bells, — 
the occasional sound of the cannon, — the doors, windows, galleries 
everywhere hung with sable drapery, — the long array of flags looped 
up with crape, did not more impressively indicate the sadly solemn 
character of the day than did the quiet and gravity of that vast 
multitude. 

Meantime, the numerous Societies and Associations that were to 
take part in the funeral procession, were assembling at their respective 
halls, lodge rooms, armories, and other head-quarters. Soon they 
began moving from all points to the several streets where they were to 
take up position, in close proximity to each other, and there remain 
until the hour fixed upon for the procession to move. 



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At noon, the spacious Parlor of the Mayor, in the City Hall, began 
to fill rapidly with the City's guests, already mentioned. They were 
cordially welcomed by Mayor Shakspeare, and by those of the Adminis- 
trators not on duty elsewhere. Administrator Walshe, as Chairman 
of the Municipal Committee, had special charge of the arrangements 
at the City Hall for the reception of the City's guests, --his Staff being 
the Hon. Mr. Brown, the Mayoralty chief clerk ; Mr. A. McConnell, 
the Mayor's private secretary ; Mr. McNamarra, secretary of the City 
Council, and Mr. McCall, assistant secretary. 

When all the guests were assembled in the Mayor's Parlor, together 
with many members of Associations that had been directed to rendez- 
vous at the Hall and form the Third Division,— the scene presented was 
one that will not be forgotten by any of those present. The sombre 
coloring of the black vestments of the civilians was relieved by the 
brighter tints of the uniforms of a few of the Foreign Consuls and 
officers of the Governor's staff. Conversation, though general, was 
carried on in a subdued tone. There was but little movement. The 
assembly were evidently imbued with the dignitj' and solemnity of the 
occasion that called them together. 

In that assembly were many of the chiefs of New Orleans com- 
merce and finance — among them white-haired men who were famous 
in the olden time, when the Crescent City was famous for her wealth 
and prosperity. Her successful manufacturers and mechanics were 
represented by a worthy delegation. Her educators, her physicians, 
her clergy, were present in the persons of men whose reputation had 
long since become national. 

The Federal Government was fully represented by well known 
officers of the different departments on duty here, — others being in 
prominent positions in the Societies then gathering on the streets. 

The various departments of the State, Parish and Municipal gov- 
ernment were represented by numerous well-known citizens: promi- 
nent among them, Associate Justice F. P. Poche, of the State Supreme 
Court ; the Hon. R. H. Marr, Chief Justice of that Court during the 
Nicholls' administration ; and the grave and dignified Lieutenant 
Governor of the State, Samuel Douglas McEnery, soon to become 
Governor. 



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Many of the men in that crowded assembly bore names closely 
linked with the most important events in the history of the State and 
the fMty— events that dated : some, years before the great civil war; 
others, durinj^ that gigantic conflict ; many, especially those in which 
the younger men took part, since the close of the struggle. Leaders 
and followers of both opposing forces were there : gallant soldiers who 
had met each other face to face on many a battle-field. Civilians, too, 
were there, equally brave and skilful, who had struggled in a more 
bitter contest still, to adjust the revolutionary results of the war. 
Xow. they met in harmony, as true men,— the melancholy past for- 
gotten ; the present and the future uniting them in the bonds of amity. 

There were also other war veterans present, well worthy of respect- 
ful notice and admiration. The chronicle of their achievements was 
briefly set forth in two large canvases, life-size portraits, that hung 
opposite them on the walls of the Parlor. One group of middle-aged 
men, — some of them showing scars of honorable wounds: a few of 
them verging into old age— pointed out to each other with smiling 
faces and vivacious gestures, the portrait of their leader at Palo Alto, 
llesaca de la Palma, Monterey, and Buena Vista. Near these old war- 
riors sat a still smaller group : old, old men, with bowed forms, 
shrunken limbs, and scanty white locks. They gazed in silence on 
the companion portrait to that of "Old Rough and Ready." It was 
"Old Hickory" himself, who,— slender, erect, stern-visaged— bestrode 
a fiery war-horse, and, halting before his old soldiers, saluted hat in 
hand, the veterans of the glorious plains of Chalmette. 

The Foreign Consuls were the centre of general observation. The 
combined diplomacy and belles lettres of old Spain were well repre- 
sented by Don Jos6 Sanchez Bazan. The Italian acting Consul, Signor 
Del Orto, was known to be also a skilful physician. Louisiana's mother- 
land was present in the persons of the talented and trained diplomat, 
the Vicomte Paul D'Abzac, and the able Vice Consul, Monsieur F. 
Navone. Close by stood Senor J. F. De Zamacona, who has done so 
much to develope and unite Mexican and American commercial inter- 
ests. With him conversed Mr. Wallace Ogden, Consul of the Argen- 
tine Republic, and Mr. E. Martinez, Consul for Guatemala, Venezuela 
and Colombia. In another group were the Czar's Consular representa- 
tive, Mr. J. F. Schroeder; the Danish Consul, Mr. H. F. Klumpp ; 



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Mr. G. Gerdes, Consul for Norway and Sweden ; and the Austria- 
Hungarian Consul, the Baron Ernest Von Meysenburg, whose tall, 
portly form and genial countenance were shown to advantage t)y 
a brilliant uniform. 

Near them, in earnest conversation, sat the Consul of the Nether- 
hmds, Mr. Adolphe Schreiber, — a native of New Orleans, and one of 
her most accomplished gentlemen and influential merchants— and the 
Consul of the German Empire, Mr. Jno. Kruttsclmitt, — for over thirty 
years an esteemed merchant of New Orleans; aiso for many years, 
from his scientific acquirements, a leading member of the N. O. Acad- 
emy of .Sciences. Mr. Kruttschnitt. than whom there is no more unaf- 
fected, amiable gentleman, was the recipient of marked attention, 
especially from many old-time citizens, who remembered his close 
family connection with one of Louisiana's most brilliant lawyers and 
orators : a U. S. Senator, then a member of the Confederate Cabinet, 
and now the peer of England's most noted advocates. 

Chatting quietly with the Mayor, stood a dark-haired, black-eyed 
gentleman, whose neat, close fitting uniform strikingly set off" his fine 
person and dignified presence. Bearing a name of ancestral note in 
the annals of British diplomacy and literature— himself an author of 
repute— Mr. De Fonblanque was now the object of more than usual 
respectful courtesy and observation For he worthily represented a 
Sovereign, who, by a few, kind, gentle words, had accomplished what 
King George's bullets and bayonets had utterly failed in : she had con- 
quered every American heart. 

But now Chief Clerk Bower entered the Parlor, and announced 
that the carriages were waiting to convey the assembly to their places 
in the Division. Mayor Shakspeare lead the way out of the Hall, 
escorting Lieut. Gov. McEnery ; and soon, under the auspices of Ad- 
ministrator Walsbe, everybody was seated, and the long train of car- 
riages moved away. But few of those who were in the building, left 
it without giving a careful glance at the large and artistic portrait of 
the dead President that had been placed that morning at the portal of 
the City Hall. The picture was enframed in black, and was hung in the 
centre of a great wreath of cedar, below which were in cedar sprays, 
the letters, "J. A. G." 



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TilK JfARsil£AIiS' WOKK. 

Tilt' ('ouuiiitlee ot Arniiigeineiits had, in their published pro- 
gramme, designated the hour of 1 o'clock P. M., on that day for the 
assemblage of the various Divisions in their preliminary positions. 
Before the movement was commenced, the Grand Makshal, Major 
Genkral W. G. Behan, took post with his »Staff on the lower side of 
Canal street, halfway between Royal and Chartres streets,— a central 
point whence he couid command the entire rendezvous. 

Then for near an hour, his numerous Aids, — comprising bankers, 
merclumts, manufacturers, architects, lawyers, publishers, druggists, 
journalists, with a sprinkling of ex-Confederate and ex-Federal war 
veterans — were kc])t busy delivering messages and orders, now here, 
now there, whilst the Grand Marshal, in addition to directing these 
zealous gentlemen, was every few minutes the recipient of reports, 
inquiries, requests from the different Marshals of Divisions, or the 
officers of the numerous Associations under their commands. 

As there were ten Divisions, — containing one hundred and twenty- 
eight distinct Societies and Companies, and numbering in all over 
12,000 men, — to be placed in position and then moved into column at a 
given signal, the task assigned the Grand Marshal required no ordi- 
nary tact and energy. 

But Gen. Behan, though a young man, had seen too much active 
field service under Beauregard and Lee not to be a master of his busi- 
ness. And, accordingly, the programme mapped out for the Procession 
by the Committee of which he was chairman, was carried into execu- 
tion without a flaw, and without any more delay than is inseparable 
in Such assemblies. In this successful performance of the duty assigned 
him, the Grand Marshal was ably assisted by the Marshals of Divis- 
ions and their Aids, all of whom had been often tried in similar oner- 
ous labors. 

The different Societies and Associations had been carefully classi- 
fied by the Committee of Arrangements and placed in Divisions, as far 
as possible in consonance with their objects and characteristics ; and 
to each Division, apart from the Military, a fine band had been appor- 
tioned, witli instructions to perform onl.y dirge music. 



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The Divisions wore i)laced in preliminnry position, as follows: 

The First Division,— the Military,— on the upper side of Canal 
street, the right resting on Tchoupitoulas street, where was i)osted 
Brigadier General .lolin Glynn, Jr., commanding the two brigades of 
soldiery. They were the only body that formed on Canal street. 

The other Divisions formed on the streets that, running parallel 
with the river, traverse Canal street at riglit angles ; the Second, 
Tliird, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Divisions above Canal, respec-tively. 
Oil Carondelet, St. Cliarles, Camp, Magazine and Tchoupitoulas streets, 
—the Seventh, Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Divisions below Canal, in suc- 
cession on North Peters, Decatur, Dorsiere and Chartres streets. 

The right of each Division, with its Marshal at the head, rested 
directly upon Canal street; so that, as the general column moved, each 
Division could, in its regular order, deboucher into Canal, and march 
on in its appointed place in the Procession. 

The Military were assigned the head of the column, because as the 
State National Guard, they paraded under the published orders of the 
Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, President C. A. Arthur. 

The Masonic bodies, forming the Second Division, acted as the spe- 
cial escort of their departed brother, the dead President. The only 
non-Masonic organization in this Division was the Continental Guards, 
selected as the military guard of honor of the catafalque. 

Presently, all was ready ; and the Grand Marshal and his Staff 
rode slowly to the intersection of Canal and Tchoupitoulas streets, 
where they halted. 

As they came near, the loud word of command was heard, with 
the sharp rattle of the drums ; and the long lines of the soldiery, that 
had been standing at ease, resumed their precise array and stood at 
shoulder-arms, waiting the order to march. 

Then, over that multitude— the thousands who were in the col- 
umns, and the thousands who were lookers-on — came a strange silence : 
as if every one held their breaths and listened to catch the echoes of the 
funeral dirges wailing through the air from Cleveland- 

Suddenly, the cannon at the head of Canal street thundered 
forth ; the fire-alarm bells rang out in unison ; and, turning to Gen. 
Glynn, Grand Marshal Behan gave the order to march. 



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Tlic Military < 'oiuniamlci- rcpead'il (he ordei- in sluirj), clear tones; 
ami inslaiilly tlie ^Ml•^^t Division niovetl : the bands i)Iaying a fnnerii 
dii-.i^e; tlii' liallalion tlui^s looped up wHii hlaek erujie; the oHieers and 
jneii, witli swords and muskets reversed, niarehinij with slow step. 

('rossiiiii' iVoni the ui)per to the lower street that together with tJie 
central passajre-way for ears and loot-passengers, form the wide Boitlc- 
ra/vZ Canal, tlie First Division, at the corner of North Peters street, 
turned its hack on the river and levee and moved out towards Kam- 
jiart street. 

Till' Second Division, under Marshal J. S. Rain ey, as soon as the 
rear comi)any of the INIilitary had passed, debouchetl from Carondelet 
into Canal street, turned to the right towarils the river; moved along 
the uiiper side of C'anal to Tehoupitoulas ; there crossed over as the 
Military column had done, and followed it along the lower side of 
Canal to lianipart. 

TJie Third Division, — the Municipal aiid State Authorities at the 
head — under Marshal A. S. Badger, wheeled into Canal from St. 
Charles street, following close behind the funeral car- in the Second 
Division. 

Tlie Fourth Division, — the Firemen, — under Marshal I. N. Marks, 
were in eolunni on Camp street, and debouched into Canal as the 
Italian Benevolent Society, that closed tlie Third Division, passed 
them. 

As the last Company of the Fire Department moved by Magazine 
street, Marshal Tissot there wheeled the Fifth Division out upon the 
ujiper side of Canal street ; and presently, as his column also gained 
space, room Avas given to— 

The Sixth Division, under Marshal P. Mealey, to move in solid 
column of fours from Tehoupitoulas street straight acro.ss Canal, and 
so follow on out to Rampart. 

(anal street,— when its upper and lower avenues were thus tilled 
with maiching meji, in close order, with tlve heads of other columns 
seen on the side streets, waiting to wheel into line, — presented a most 
imposing spectacle. The central space mentioned and the sidewalks 
were crowded with a nuuss of sitectators ; and the doorways, windows, 
balconies and galleries to the third and fourth stories, and even in 
many places, the roof coi)ings were similarly ocoupied. Add to this 



FUNERAL CEREMONIES. G7 



liost of pooplo, tlu' mass ol' iiiourning drapery, tho Imndrods of Hm.s;s 
and banners loojH'd in crapo, tho mournful strains ol' nuisic, tlie slow 
tolling of bells, the occasional booming of a minute gun, and the grave, 
saddened look of the multitude; and some idea may be formed of the 
appearance and etrect of this magnificent Procession. 

As the six Divisions nametl gradually followed each other from 
Canal street into Rami)art, ami then moved slowly down town, they 
at length permitted the remaining four Divisions, in position below 
("anal, in their tui'n to come into line. 

The Seventh Division, under Marshal .1. B. Vinet, was the first of • 
the four to appear in the moving column. It turned into ("anal from 
Peters street; and was followed in slow succession: first, by the 
Eighth Division, under Marshal James Lewis, in position on Decatur 
street; then by the Ninth Division, under Marshal A. J. Dumont, in 
position on Dorsiere street; and, lastly, by the Tenth Division, which 
under Marshal P. B. S- Pinchback, had long patiently awaited on 
Chartres street the signal for the march. 

Rampart street is as broad as Canal ; and, like it, is divided by a 
wide central-way, into two sione-paved thoroughfares. The Proces- 
sion took the outer one. The multitude of spectators filled every 
available foot of space left. 

On arriving at St. Ann street, the column turned to the right, to- 
wards the river again, until, reaching Chartres street, it wheeled at 
right angles and started back for Canal street. 

Crossing there with some delay— for the Tenth Division was just 
starting out for Rampart street,— the long column moved up Camp 
street to Julia, where after three hours' march, it halted to give the 
Divisions in the rear time to close up. Then the First Division fell 
into line; and the Funeral Catafalque, wath its Masonic and Military 
escort, passed by the soldiery, who saluted. Then it moved out Julia to 
St. Charles street, down which it turned, and halted in front of the 
Washington Artillery Arsenal. 

The Divisions then again took up the line of march, from Camp 
via Julia into St. Charles street, saluting the Funeral Car as tliey passed 
the Arsenal. Ere long they once more reappeared on Canal street. The 
Grand Marshal took post at the intersection of Canal and Carondelet 
streets ; the Divisions marched by him in review ; and then the Pro- 
cession was dismissed. 

It is now in order to present more detailed description of the 
numerous Associations, as they appeared in the march. 



(iS HIciTOKV OF THE 



THE PROCESSION. 



The veteran (.'hief of Police, Captain Thos. N. Boylan, mounted 
and in lull uniform, commanded a picked detacliment of his corjp.s', that 
headed the Procession and cleared the way for it through the crowded 
thoi'oughfares. 

Then came the (Srand Marshal of thk day, 

:\IA.l. GKN. W. .] RKHAN, 

and lii.s Aids, as follows : 

T. L. Airey, R. ^- Howard, 

U. E. Apps, James Plagan, 

Theo. Berkson, M. Hackett, 

F. D. Be( ker, B. Kiotz, 

A. W. Bosworth, J. J. Langl&s, 

E. AV. ("onverse, J. B. Levert, 

E. L. Carriere, A. A. Maginnis, 

E. P. Cottraux, Geo. McCloskey, 

Chas. Dillingham, J. O. Nixon, Jr., 

.J. C. Denis, J. K. Overton, 

P. O. Fazende, J. J. Schmidt, 

Alex. Finlay, Geo. Smith, 

Leeds Greenleaf, W. T. Vaudrj", and 

A. W. Hyatt, C. L. Walker. 

Several gentlemen who had been appointed on Geu. Behan's 
Staff— as, Maj. Jno. Augustin, Gen. W. L. McMillen, Chief Thos. 
O'Connor, Louis Prados, Col. Jack Wharton — could not report to him 
as they were on duty in other parts of the Procession. 

The Grand Marshal and his Aids were attired in black cloth dress 
suits, with white vests and gloves and black silk hats. As insignia of 
their official positions, the Grand Marshal wore a broad black and 
white sash, from shoulder to waist, and the Aids each had on the left 
arm a black and white arndet with streamers. With the exception of 
tlie Military Division, this was also the accoutrement of the Marshals 
of Divisions and their Aids. 

THE FIRST DIVISION 

was co)nposed of the Regiments and Battalions on the rolls of the 
Louisiana State National Guard, and of several independent Compa- 
nies,- tlu' wliole formed into two Brigades. 



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The Division was commanded by : 

BRIGADIKK GENEKAI. JOHN GLYNN, JR., 

of the First Brigade, who was accompanied by the Staff of that Brig- 
ade as follows : 

Lt. Col. Jno. D. Scott Ass't Adj't General, 

Major Henry Den^gre (Juartermaster, 

Major E. C. Fenner Inspector General, 

Major L. J. Fremaux Ordnance Officer, 

Lieutenant F. Larue A. D. C, detached. 

The march of the Military column was opened by the 

SECOND BRIGADE 

Under the command of 

BRICJADIER GENERAL ADOLPH MEYER, 

His Brigade StafI' was represented by : 

Lt. Col. Edwin J. Kursheedt Ass't Adj't General, 

Major F. A. Behan Ordnance Officer, 

Major Max. Herrmann Commissary, 

Col. W. H. Roberts, A. D. C. to Governor Acting Inspector General, 

Captain J. P. Richardson, A. D. C- 

Preceded by their splendid brass band, came that martial looking 
corps, the 

GERMAN BATTALION. 

In the front rode the tall and stately Major Benjamin Armbruster, 
commanding in the absence from the city of Lieutenant Colonel Geo. 
H. Braughn. 

The other officers of the Battalion Staff were : Lieut. Charles L. 
Sieber, Adjutant ; Lieut. Rudolph H. Benners, Quartermaster ; Lieut. 
"W. H. Liftman, Commissary; Surgeon, Fred. Schumacher. 

The Companies were officered as follows : 

Company .4.— Captain O. M. Tennison ; First Lieutenant J. E. 
Albert ; Second Lieutenant Conrad Geissler. 

Company C.— Captain John Schlumbrecht. 

Company Z).— Captain Joseph Voegtle ; First Lieutenant John 
Mander. 



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Company B. — First Lieutenant John H. Landwehr cominandiiig, 
— ('ai)t:uii CMias. F. Buck being on duty as Orator of the day. 

With tilt" liattalion marelied, as its guests, a detachment of tlie 
Italian indcjuMidcnt coniiuand. 

TIRt) AL, BEBSAGLIO, 

(itlicrrcd liy Captain John Astredo, First Ijieutenaiil P. Ciuarnero, and 
Sfcoiid Lieutenant A. Patorno. 

Tlieir darlv olive-green uniforms and hi'oad-brimmed, low-crown, 
hlaclv felt hats, liberally garnished with black cock's feathers, con- 
trasted strikingly with the blue and grey uniforms, with red trim- 
mings, and glittcving helmets with white horse-hair plumes, of their 
(ierman hosts. 

The close fitting grey uniforms trimmed with red, the red shoulder- 
knots, black belts, and red-plumed black shakos of that lamous war 
command, the Battalion of 

WASHINGTON ARTILLERY, 

next attracted the admiring attention of the spectators. 

The Artillery band,— a very fine <me, neatly aceoutered — led the 
way. Behind them rode that veteran soldier, Lirvtenanf Colonel John 
li. Rirhar(fson, connuanding. 

The Battalion Field and Staff were as follows: Major Eugene May ; 
Lieut. A. J. Mitchel, Adjutant; Lieut. Andrew Hero, Jr., Quarter- 
master; Lieut. John Holmes, Commissary ; Lieut. T. H. Fuqua, Ord- 
nance Otticer ; Surgeon, W. R. Mandeville. 

The Non-Comnussioned Staff were: Sergeant-Major, Wallace Bos- 
tick; (iuartermaster Sergeant, H. L. Zebal ; Chief Bugler, F. de P. 
\'iilasana. 

The Line Officers parading were: 

lUittiru yl.— Captain Frank McElroy ; First Lieutenant (Ins. 
Leefe ; Second Ijieutenant James Harvey. 

lUdOrij C— Captain Harry M. Isaacson; PMrst Lieutenant Doug- 
las Ar. Kili)atrick; Junior First Lieutenant Dudley Selpli ; Second 
Lieutenant Frank L. Place. 

J W^mn Company.— Captain C. L. V. Dupuy ; Fir.st Lieutenants 
I'jiiilc .1. O'lhicn and L. A. Adam. 



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Battery B. — Captain .John Miller; First Lit'utoiiiiiil J. S. Uicliunls ; 
Second Lieutenant Jl. Villaruhia, — Junior First Lieutenant O. F. 
I'eek was on duty with the jjjun detaehnient, tirinji; the salute. 

The Hecond Brigade whs closed by that numerous and thoroughly 
drilled infantry corps, the 

CBESCBNT KK(;iMKNT, 

whose grey uniforms witli l)lack trimmings, blue and black shoulder 
knots, black belts and black shakos with tall white and blue plumes, 
give them so striking an api)earance. 

The Ci'escent's large and excellent band, led by its tall Drum-' 
Major, M'as followed by the stalwart commanding officer of the Regi- 
ment, bestriding a shoAvy charger,— CoZone^ R. B. Pleasants. 

His Field and Staff Officers were: Lieut. Colonel Atwood Violett 
and First Lieutenant W. C. H. Robinson, Adjutant. — Major Henry H. 
Baker was absent from sickness ; Captain E. A. Burke, Quartermaster, 
appeared in another part of the Procession in his official cai>acity as 
State Treasurer ; and the Regimental Chaplain, the Rev. Hugh Miller 
Thompson, Avas absent from the State. 

The Non-Commissioned Staff were : Sergeant-Major S. A. Tru- 
fant ; Quartermaster and Ordnance Sergeant Paul Holloway. 

The Crescent Companies paraded and were officered in the follow- 
ing order : 

Company C — '' League Guards."— Captain William F. Pinckard ; 
First Lieutenant Geo. B. Penrose. 

Company E. — " Crescent Rifles."- Captain Harry Allen ; First 
Lieutenant O. L. Putnam ; Second Lieutenant W. R. Brashear ; 
Junior Second Lieutenant F. S. Palfrey. 

Company II.—"' Stonewall Grenadiers."— P'irst Lieutenant Robert 
G. Hadden, commanding, — the Cajitain having been but recently 
elected Major of the Regiment. 

Company Z).— " Hester Rifles." — Captain Charles Douuaud ; First 
Lieutenant Jas. H. Hanrahan ; Second Lieutenant Chas. W. Adams. 

Company A. — " Vaudry Rifles." — Captain John G. Woods; First 
Lieutenant A. T. Terry ; Second Lieutenant W. G. Turner. 

Company O, — " Jumel Guards." — Captain J. North Abbott ; First 
Lieutenant L. B. Hollingsworth. 



HISTORY OF THE 



Conipaiii/ /'.—"Burke Rifles. "—Captain Lewis Bartlett ; Second 
Jjieutenanl Ricliard Hinekley. 

CV)/>?y>«yv/ 7)'.— " Nicholls Rifles." — First Lieutenant E. M. Under- 
liill coniiiiiindinii : Captain C. M. Whitney being absent from the city. 

THK FIRST BRIGADE 

was (•(•luinanded by its senior ottieer after its Brigadier, namely 

COLONEL A. .1. BACHKMIN, 

iiftlic Kegimenl of Orleans Artillery. 

'I'iie Brigade Shdi" was as follows : 
Capljiiii A. I>;ii!ly-Blanchard, Ordnance Otticer Orleans Artillery, 

Acting Ass't Adj't General, 

Cai>tiun Jjeon Palas, Commissary O. A Acting Commissary, 

Ijieut. Raoul Tertrou, Adjutant O. A Acting Aid-de-Camp. 

['receded by its excellent band, slowly marched, with funeral 
stoj) and reversed arms, that solid regiment, the 

FIRST INFANTRY, 

whose elegant uniform of dark grey with black trimmings for the rank 
and file, and dark blue and gold for the officers, showed the close 
marching companies to great advantage. 

The First Regiment was commanded by that tail, dashing-looking 
officer, Colonel Ororgc H. Lord, riding a handsome steed. 

The other Field and Staff Officers wer^ : Lieutenant-Colonel 
Thomas Mclntyre ; Major M. C. Royes ; Lieutenant Wm. ('ommer- 
ford, Adjutant; Captain R. G. Musgrove, Commissary; Captain D. 
P. Mahoney, (Quartermaster; Captain Adolph Schwaner, Ordnance 
Officer. 

The Companies paraded in the following order: 

Company A. — " Meyer Rifles "—Captain C. H. Hourbricht; First 
Lieutenant P. Lob ell ; Second Lieutenant A. Reeves. 

Compani/ C. — " Howard Light (Guards " — Captain B. J. Goodman ; 
First Lieutenant H. J. liruns : Second Lieutenant H. Todswer. 

Coiiipuntj /.'.—Captain L. F. Bouchereau ; First Lieutenant L. 
B. Guinle. 

Company /'.—"Sumner Rifles "—Captain Thos J. Bath; First 
Lieutenant M. E. Dullanty ; Second Lieutenant Thos. Bell. 



FUNKKAL OEKEMONIES. iS 

<'(it)i/)<iii>/ G--' Rvniy (Jlink Cadets "—First Lieutenant Charles 
Islier eoiuiuaiuliiijj, ; SeL-oiul LieuteuuDt W. .1. liawier. — Captain 
Cain was absent from the eity. 

<'<»npanii JI.-' Hehan Grays "—First Lieutenant F. Tnjoyne eoni- 
nianding, in tlie al)seiiee i)f Capt. Aaron; Junior First Lieutenant M. 
IJrejiTone; Second Lieutenant M. M. Borges. 

Two soldiery-looking Coni|)anies,in whose handsome uuilormsthe 
'• enuTaldluie" predominated, next attracted attention. Tiiey were the 
Irish indepemlenl 'oinpanie-; : (lie 

IRISH HIKIvKS, 

eomnmiided by Lieuleiiant Oarvey in the absence of Captain John 
Fitzpatrick, and the 

MtrCHKI-J- K1KI,ES, 

connnanded by Lieutenant H. F. Brennan. 

The two Companies paraded as a Battalion, under the command of 
Ca))tain M. Griffen, of the ISritchell Hitles, a« acting Major. 

Then followed, headed by a large and well-trained brass band, 
the serried ranks of the Regiment of 

l,01TtSIANA FIKlil* ARTIIjJ.ERV, 

showing very handsomely in their uniforms of dark blue, with white 
belts, red trimmings, red epaulettes and red plumed black hats. 

[n front of a numerous and brilliant Stafl' rode that veteran officer, 
commanding the Regiment, Colonel Gustnvc LcGardev.r, Jr. 

The Field and Staff officers with him were : Lieutenant-Colonel 
James D. Edwards ; Major J. Numa Augustin ; First Lieutenant A. Du- 
rel, Adjutant; Captain Gustave Pitot, C^uartermaster ; First Lieuten- 
ant W. W. Renshaw, Assistant Quartermaster ; Captain James Rey- 
nolds, Commissary; Captain Jas. A. Renshaw, Ordnance Officer. 

The Nou-Commissioned Staff were : Color-Sergeant, John P. 
Beanham; Quartermaster Sergeant, J. H. Leary ; Ordnance Ser- 
geant, John P. Nobles. 

The rank and file, in batteries, were officered and marched as fol- 
lows : 

Battery ^.—Captain George A. Chiapella ; First Lieutenant R. 
M. Armant ; Junior First Lieutenant Louis Cassard ; Second Lieu- 
tenant E. LeGardeur. 



7 I IliaTOKV K^i' THE 

natifi-jj //.—Captain NVilliaiu H. Bcanhaiu ; First Lieutenant H. 
H. riionipsoi) ; Junior First Lieutciuuit, F. M. Kerr; Second Lieuten- 
ant (ieorge L> ml. 

Ildttrrii r.— Captain AL . I. Korlicr : First Lieutenant P. O. (\w- 
i-in ; Junior First Lieutenant Iv 1^. Kaiilett. — Second Lieutenant 
I". i>arne was actinj^ as A. I). C to (Jen. (Jlynn. 

Ilafl( I'll />. -i""irst Lieutenant J. L. Turner, in coiuniand ; Junior 
1-irst Lieutenant V . A. .Moon. 

The iiliie unitbr)ns, witli red trininiin^s, wliite l>ells and l)laci< 
shai\os witli straight red plunns (»!' anotiier line artiliery cor[»s- one 
long connected witii tlie military history ol' tiu' < "reoie ))art ol the city 
-next fixed the attention ol' the spectators. .\ uunicrou.s hand led t]u> 
way lor the iieuiineid of 

OKriKANS AKTllJj;i;V, 

nM(icr I lu' couiniand of tiieir stalwart and martial lookin.i;- Li' kUiuih/ 
( 'oloii' I /'. O Pi j/roii.r. 

'J'lie regular regimental staff heing on duty in that capacity for tln' 
IhiL'ade, Willi Colonel Hacheniin, IjI. Col. i'cvrou.x was assisted hy 
(aptain Fmilc Pacliouil, of Battery F, as his .\djidant. and Ordnancc- 
Sergi'ant A. Calogne as his Sergeant Major 

In the immediate froid of the Hegi)nenl niaiciieiL as its guests, 
lour indepemlent Companies, each of wdiich elicifed general praise 
liy their steady i)earing and handsome uniforms. 

The lirsfof these Companies was Ihc 

(iKKIMAN caiAKUS, 

oflicered hy Captain (ieorge Miiller ; First Lieutenant O. A. P. Stoll ; 
Second Lieutenant A. Wermes; and Feldwehel, W. A. Suhren. 1'he 
uniform of the ( hiards dillers hut little from that of the (Tcrman 
Battalion. 

The second independent Comi)any in line was the 

KKANC TIKKIKS D'oKTKANS, 

commanded hy Captain Alexis Dnmestre; First Lieidenant Bernard 
Maylie; Second liieutenant Jame Faure ; and Second Junior Lieuten- 
ant Jean Pujol. Their sc^arlet caps, hlue coats and scarlet pants, with 
gold and scarlet trimmings, contrasted vividly witli that of the (Ger- 
man (ruards. and with the dark green and gold uniforms and plumed 
peaked leather hats of the Comi)any that followed, the 



FUNERAL CEREMONIES, 



CA/ADORKS DK ORLEANS. 

Tlu' ollicors ol (his Wm- Spiinisli coiniiiaiKi wcif : Cajtlniii .lost' 
Llado ; First Tjieutenant James Pons; Si-cciui liicuhiiaiit Jaiiu-s 
Anslnda; Third Lieutenant J. M. Tiaben. 

Tlie fourth inilejienilent ConipaMy was tiie h'rfuch 

OAKDKS I-AFAYF7rTK, 

uniformed neatly in red caiis, blue coats and .<.',re.v pants, and eoai- 
nianded by Captain ({. I'.one; i^'irst Lieutenant .1. FVyregne ; and Sec- 
ond Lieutenant S. Jae(|iiet. 

The eonipaet ranks of the Orleans Artillery batteries, MiHriliin.t> 
like one man, followed. Tlxy were oftieered by : 

i^a«</7y ^.—( Captain Leon Xunes ; First Lieutenant John T. Pitt- 
man ; First Junior Lieuteiian! rjv)uis Caron ; Second [jieutenant P. B. 
Salatieh. 

Batteri/ /i.— Captain Charles Lejeune; First Lieuteniuil Thos. .1. 
Camp; Second Lieutenant Albert Muller. 

Baftpry />.— Captain Georire Schatyer ; Second Lieutenant Jacciues 

Levy. 

JkiUerij E.—(.>A\Avd\\ Anthony Sambola ; F'irst Junior Lieutenant 

Kmile Boehler; Second Lieutenant Nicholas Theodore. 

iJa/^fir?/ i'^.— First Lieutenant Louis Donafort in command, Cap- 
tain Pachoud being detached on the Staff; First Junior Lieutenant 
F^ugene Huppenbauer ; Second Lieutenant Clias. H. Richardson. 

There were some twelve hundred men in the FMrst Division, 
including the staff", field and line officers. 

THE SEC^OND DIVISION. 

As already stated, — with the exception of the military guard of 
honor and a few officers of the Governor's military statif'. — this Division 
was composed entirely of the ditterent Masonic bodies, wiio acted as 
special escort to the catafalque of their deceased Brother Mason : 
parading for that purpose in compliance with the published request of 
the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of the State. 

This invitation included not only those Masons owing allegiance 
to the Grand Lodge, but also the Knights Templar, the Grand Coun- 
cil of Royal and Select Masters, the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch 
Masons, the Grand Consistory of Louisiana 32°, and all sojourning 
Masons in good standing. 



70 HISTORY OF THE 



The Makshaj. of llie DivLsioii, John S. Rainey, uiid his Aids, 
K. H. iSluHKrovf, (Jeorj^e Stroud, John f. Bach :iiid (reorf^c J. Pinekard, 
rode hehiud u full band that played a solemn funeral march; and 
immediately after the Marshal and bis Statfcame three handsome open 
carriages, occupied t)y the Hon. Chas. F. Buck, the Orator of the day, 
and the oftlciatinj^ Clergy: the Rev. Dr. B. ISI. Palmer, of the First 
Presbyterian Church; the Rev. Dr. J. F. (Tirault, of St. Anna's Epis- 
copal Church; the Rev. Dr. John Matthews, of the St. Charles Street 
Methodist (,'hurch, and the Rev. Janies K. (Uitheim, Rabbi of Temple 
Sinai. 

The various Masonic Bodies then appeared, in strict accordance 
with an elaborate pubJished proj^ramme prepared by the higher Otticers. 

In front, moved on foot, the Knights Temfi.ak, who were acting 
more especially as the funeral escort, — the deceased President, besides 
being a mend^er of otlier Masonic Bo<Ues, having been a member of a 
Knights Templar Comnmndery of the District of C'oluml)ia. 

The Knights, arrayed in their neat and elegant uniform, and 
having their drawn swords bound witli black crape, marched evenly 
and steadily like veteran soldiers, under the skilful leadership of 
Sir CJkorgk SouLt, the Right Eminf^nt Qraiid Vomtn under. 

He was acconipanied by tlie following otticers of 

THK grand C )MIVrAN])ERY : 

Sir Will. H. Hhaffe, Eminent trrand Generalissimo; 
Hir ^. iV^. Vuminings, Eminent CJrand Captain General; 
Sir A. L. Abbott., Eminent Grand Prelate; 
Sir A. H. iJe Fusts, Eminent Grand Junior Warden ; 
Sir ./. A. Fu;kfrt, Eminent Grand Sword Bearer; 
Sir J. C. Ayei\ Eminent Grand Warden ; 
Sir ./. W- Maguire, Eminent Grand Cai^tain of the Guards. 
They were followed by the subordinate Knights Templar Bodies 
in iheir order: 

INDIVISIBJ.K friends COMMANDERV NO. 1. 

The Officers were represented by Sir Fred. Eyle, Sir W. C. Stanton, 
Sir H. Dudley Coleman, and Sir P. J. Churchill ; 

Commanding: Sir Knights, Wm. B. Booth, E. Brand, D. Barry, 
A. C. Bruns, Samuel Brooks, Richard H. Browne, J. H. Carter, F. M. 
Carraber, D. A. Del^ass, James Furneaux, Wm. Gregg, J. Olle, Alfred 
H. Isaacson, and G. M. Wadsworth. 



FUNERAL CERI;M0N1ES. 7i 

JACQUES DK MOl.AY OOMMANDKRY NO- L'. 

Otficers parading : 8ir F. D. Ruth, Sir (Jcorge Bonning, .Sir (). L. 
iieer, Sir A. S. Cutler, Sir J. H. Dunn, Sir K. H. O'Sullivan, and Sir 
J. H. Turck. 

And Sir Kights : E. ('. Adams, R. S. Austin, R. H. Burke, R. H. 
Benuers, J. P. Douglas, G. W. Collins, John R. Jaeger, C. H. Schenek, 
L. Soraparu, John Hawkins, D. W. Peck, Robert Strong, Owen Ger- 
non, M. W. Francis, and David Hughes. 

OKLEANS COMMANDERY NO. :{. 

Omeers parading: Sir C- Mudge, Sir W. Parsons, Sir C. W. David- 
son, and Sir J. Potter ; 

And Sir Knights: A. C. Bahcock, Frederi(rk Goo<l, Louis Power, 
Kugene Tisdale, H. V. Baringer, and T. W. Eaton. 

In each of the subordinate Coninianderies a number of the Sir 
Knights, — officers and those under their connnand,--were absent, 
either from being on duty in the Grand Commandery, or in otlier 
Masonic Orders, or in other Divisions, whilst quite a number, from 
the Grand Commandery down, were absent fiom the city. 

The Knights Templar as a body made a beautiful display, as they 
always do when they appear in public,— their excellent <lrill and pic- 
turesque uniform combining irresistibly to attract and please every eye. 

The Knights w^ere followed, as set forth in the programme, by a 
large delegation from the various Masonic Lodges, including : Deacons, 
Tylers, Master Masons, Junior Deacons, Senior Deacons, Masters of 
Ceremonies, Secretaries, Treasurers, Junior Wardens, Senior Wardens, 
Worshipful Masters, and Past Masters, who marched on foot. A 
number of Master Masons, — veterans, who occupied carriages — closed 
this part of the Division. 

The Lodges thus represented were as follows : 

Perfect Union Lodge No. 1,— M. Levy, W. M. ; A. Walz, S. W. ; 
T. Guyol, J. W. ; O. Robin, T. ; R. Barbier, S. ; N. Kuntz, S. D. ; E. 
Antoine, J. D. ; Chas. Raymond, Tyler. 

Polar Star Lodge No. 1,— S. Chanfrau, W. M. ; F. Renaudin, S. 
W. ; J. M. Verges, J. W. ; J. Libarros, T. ; J. H. Neguelona, S. ; I. 
Soul6. S. D. ; P. Dennis, J. D. ; B. Cazeres, Tyler. 



UlSTOliY OF THE 



Perseverance Lodi^c No. 4,~M. A. ("aloiigne, W. M. ; H. >St. Gez, 
S. \V. : -M. N'eritiiole, .1. W. ; ('. Bois, T. ; J. MagvJidie, S. ; K. Morere, 
S. 1).; <;. Aiitlrieiix, J. I).; J. L. Dusat, Tyler. 

St. Andre Lod^e No. 5,— R. liUfontuine, W. M. ; J. P. Carrfre, S. 
\V. ; A. iMaillies, .1. W. ; G. Tujugiie, T. ; P. S. Bossomey, S. ; J. P.. 
Pirolle, S. I). ; T. l)n«M)s, J. I).; F. Gill»ert, Tyler. 

litis Aini<iC)s del Orden No. o,— K. Keiidueles, W. M. ; V. Lopez, 
S. \V ; J. Fernandez, J. \V. ; J. Mercadal, T. ; J. Ghaluio, S. ; F. Bell, 
S. 1).; A. Fell/ado, J. I).; .) . L.DauHsal, Tyler. 

Sileiiciu Lodge No. !), .J. A. y Prats, W. M. ; V. Snarez, 8. W. ; 
J. Harzaiia, .1. W. ; A. Snare/., '!'. ; G. S. y (;alioiia, S. ; J. Barba. S. D. ; 
J. Menendez, J. I). 

Gerinania Loflge No. 4n, (Mias. F. linek, W- i\l. (Orator ot the 
Day); G. Steenken, S. W. ; H. CJernian, .J. W. ; E. Sc^luuidt, T. ; Ed. 
Kiirliard, S. ; .1. F. liorehard, S. D. ; I. Stick, J. D. ; J. Fulda, Tyler. 

Friends of Harmony Lodge No. oS, — A. A. Minis, W. M. ; P. P. 
Paul, S. W. ; Jno. Berry, J. W- ; L. Schwartz, T. ; W. H. Holland, 
S. ; T. (;. Fielding, S. I).; ('. W. Knilander, J. I).; Wni. Tell, Tyler. 

Mount JNIoiiali Lodge No. W, — Rieljard Lambert, W. M., (appear- 
ing wilh (he Grainl ('hai)ter of R. A. M. as (Jrand Scribe) ; L. Schnei- 
der, S. W. ; .Ja.s. (Jousley, J. AV. ; H. Fl Shropshire, T. ; Jas. Fur- 
neaux, S., (with Knights Teixiplar) ; J. D. Patton, S. D.; M. Cra- 
inond, J. D. ; P. C Nessin, Tyler. 

George Washington Lodge No. (!."), — VVm. M. Rush, W. M. ; Geo. 
W.Collins, S. W., (appearing in .Jac(iues de Molay Commandery); 
W'jn. H. Rooney, J. W. ; Jos. R. Turck, T., (with Knights Templar) ; 
S. Sandak, S. ; H. Gilmore, S. D. ; A. P. Bhini, ,1. D. ; G. G. Pomet, 
Tyler. 

Dudley Lodge No. Oti,— (}eo. Stroud, W. M., (appearing as Aid to 
Marsiial Rainey) ; Jacob Meyers, S. W. ; .1. J. Bender, J. W. ; E. 
Lilieiithal, T. ; Chas. Brill. S. ; S. Satterly, S. D. ; W. E. Weeks, J. 
D. ; E. B. O'Sullivan, Tyler, (with Knights Templar.) 

Marion Lodge No. (iS,— J. S. Swan, W. M. ; J. M. Weymouth, S. 
\V. ; .1. A. Pickert, J. W., (appearing in the Grand Commandery); 
H. p. Buckley, T. ; Tiios. Cripps, S. ; J. P. Hopkins, S. D. ; L. Rey- 
nolds, J. D. 



FUNERAL C'EKEMONIES. 70 

Hiiaiu Lod^v No. Td, -K. Hdiliiigtsleldt r, W. M.; A. llrlmiu, S. 
\V. ; H. Bnins, J. W. ; P. S. Anderson, T. ; Wni. 1). Tiiylor, S. ; 1' 
Criiniptoii, S. 1).; ( i. Sit/,ni;in. J. 1).; .1. laidlow, 'I'vlcr. 

Al[)lia Homo Ij(Hl<>e No. 72, — (ieo. J. Pinckard, W. JNI.,— (a])i)(:ar- 
ing as Aid to tlu' INlarshal) ; Tho.s. Kcarns, fS. W.; Jacob Hotli, J. W.; 
H. (;. F. Hubener, T.; Win. .Starr, H.; A. «^)ufan(, S. I)., (appcariuu 
with the Grand Lodge); It IMant, J. J).; W. \V. Hutchins, Tyler. 

(Quitman Lodge No. TO, — Erieh Brand, \\'. INI., (a|»i»<'aring witli 
thcCJrand T>od.ire); Mayer Ijevy, .S. W-; C'. Slrobrl. .). W.; A. Martin, 
'r.; Fred. Kyle, S., (witli Kniglits Templar); Win. Ahhotl, S. I).; I-'.' 
W. Thiele, J. I).; Pv. Wilson, Tyler. 

Orleans Lodge No. 7S,— Louis Kaiser, W. i^L; Wni. II. N'ildihii, 

S. W.; Thos. .1. Moulin, J. W.; Fd. Tropliet, T.; .J. H. V\ I, S.; W. 

Cunningham, S. I).; A. Adler, J. 1).; B. F. lUirns, Tyler. 

Hermitage Lodge No. iKS,— John H. H. Taylor, W. i\l.; John 
Wiliig, S. W.; Frank (Jerstner, J. W.; (". H. Miller, 1'.; (;e(.. S. Pet- 
tit, S.; Jos. I). Taylor, S. !>.; V. Shanneville, J. I).; F. Osborne, Tyler. 

Louisiana Lodge No. \()'2, — JoJin H- Painey, W. M. (appearing as 
Marshal of tlie JMvisioii ); E. B. Musgrove, S. \V., (appearing as Aid); 
H. iN\ Soria, J. W.; F. A. Palfrey, T.; J. Ji. Wasson, S.; ('.('. (V,tting, 
S. J) ; I'. J. Chnnhill, J. T).; J. W^ Maguire, 'I'yier. 

Oeeaii Jjodge No. Ill, Jas. I'arker, W. INL; S. Frodiingliam, S. 
W.; A. H. Herbert, J. W.; M.J. Sehwarm, 'J'.; J. A. Letlen, S.; P. 
Youiigblood, 8. 1).; 'J\ Dnmas, J J).; P. Donnelly, Tyk-r. 

Linn Wood Lodge No. 1H7, — Win. B. Hall, W. M.,— (appearing in 
the Grand J^odge); John Booth, S. W.; (J. W. Keating, J. W.; C. W. 
Davi.son, T.; E.E. Adams, S.; E. K. Puss, S. D.; J. B. Ballard, J. J).; 
M. Hart, Tyler. 

Kosmos Lodge No. 171,— li. A. Lehman, ^^■. M.; II. (i. Iiol/.<'r, S. 
W.; (i. Ritter, J. W.; J. F. Falkenheiner, T.; ('. Loreh, S.; .\. 
Loeper, H. D.; C Walch, J. I).; W. Dre.ssel, Tyler. 

Union Lodge No. 172,— M. L. Costley, W. M.; John T. Shearer, 
S. W.; Chas. Assenheimer, J. W.; D. Hughes, T., (with K. T.); P. M. 
Schneidau, S.; J. H. Taboney, 8. D.; W. H. Wheeler, J. D.; J. 
Charles, Tyler. 



so II18TUKV OF THE 



OriMit I-(Mljiv No. 17.!, -Alfred 81iaw, W. M.; Win. H. Hire, 8. 
W : (arson iMiid^e, J. \V. (appearing? in Orleans Coniniandery); Ed. 
l.aUcr, T.; V. xMielly, S.; /,. '1'. Black, S. D.; T. H. Begg, J. D. 

I (ante J.odge No. 174,— A. (anion, W. M.; (i. B. Sharboro, 8. W.; 
1,. Majoli, .1. \V.; (i. Trisconi, T.; A. Lical/.i, tS.; A. Cattenaro, S. D.; 
(J. Dcniartini, .J. 1). 

IVrCcct Harmony Lod^je N'o. 17(i,— (4eo. Koi>li, W. M.; Jos. A- 
Bnrke, S. \V.; I'eler iMackray, J. W.; E. Tranh, T.; H, P. McDonnell, 
S.; .1. O'Honrke, S. 1).; .1. Kscliezabel, J. D.; R. S. Bnrke, Tyler. 

Corinlliiaii i-odj^e X<\ liHI,— W. J. Hovard, W. M.; A. (iold- 
tlnvaile, S. \V.; (lias. Palfrey, J. W.; Van B. K. Milliard, T.; .J. B. 
F^:ilis, S.; C. T. Smith, S. I).; A. Van Smith, J. 1). 

.leflcrson Lod^e No. l!»l, -\V. (i. Murtagh, \V. M-; Jo.s. Kant/,, S. 
\V.; John ('. Ba<'li, J. W.,--(aj)pearinj>; as Aid to the Marshal); (*. 
Sihopp, T.; H. Breen, S., (with (irand Lodge); J. Ijane, S. D.; G. 
Weiss, J. I) ; H. C. Brown, Tyler. 

Among the Masojis in carriages was the venerable Charles Kay- 
miin<i. of I'olar Star Lodge. He is one of tlie veterans of the Battle of 
New Orleans; and, thougli eighty-eight years old, still takes a lively 
interest in daily events. He isconsidered t lie oldest Mason in Louisiana. 

After the rej)resentatives of the Lodges, rode in carriages represent- 
atives of the higher Masonic Orders, of whom may lie mentioned the 
Otiicers, as follows, of the 

(iKANI) KOVAJ^ ARCH CHAPTER: 

A. Hero, Jr., Grand High Priest,— John W. Madden, as Deputy 
(irand High Priest,— Joim Henderson, as Grand King, — Richard 
Jjandtert, (irand Scribe,— Hilel Marks, (i rand Captain of Host, — \V. 
H. Hutchings, Graiul Sentinel, — Jos. H. DeCxrange, Past Gi'aud High 
Priest. 

Then aj»peared in carriages the Otiicers of the 

<;kani) i.odoe of Louisiana: 

Win. Ji Whilakrr, Most Worshipful Grand Master 

Jas. L. JjohdcU^ Right Worthy Deputy Grand Master 

E. Morel, District Deputy Grand Master 

H. Breen, District Deputy Grand Master 

G. H. Pahsf, District Deputy Grand Master 





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FUNERAL (^EREMONlEiJ. SI 



Jolni Clark(, as (Traiid Senior Warden; 

(iro. Johnsfon, as Grand Junior Warden; 

J. B. Sorcqxiru, as Grand Treasurer; 

./. C Batflidor iM. D., Grand Secretary; 

E. Brand, .as Grand Senior Deacon ; 

Chan. NeirfoH, as Grand Junior Deacon; 

11"///. IL Hall as(Jrand Standard Bearer; 

l[. llanibur<j( i\ Grand Pursuivant; 

A. Queanf, as Grand Tyler. 

In the carriages in wiiicli rode tlie M. W. (irand Master, W. 11. 
Wliitaker, and the R. W. Dej)iity (irand Master, .las. L. Lohdell, were 
also the M.W. I'ast (jlrand Masters: Kdwiu JNIarks and J. Q. A. Fellow.s. 

This carriage was the last in the Division, and immediately pro- 
ceded the Catafahjue. 

In obedience to their Marshal's pul)lished orders, all the Officers 
of the various Masonic Jiodies appeared in l)la<-k coat and i)aiit.s, i>la(^k 
lial and wliite gloves: wore tlieii' lull regalia and displayed tlieir 
respective Jewels of office. All the hadges were i»ound with Mack 
<-ra|)e. 

^'ow, rode lorward Aid (Tcorge J. I'inckard, wlKtse Masonic rank 
is Most lUustrions (Jrand Master of the (Jraiid Council. R. and S. M- 
He was specially entrusted hy Marshal Ivainey with the care and 
ilirection of 

IIIK CATAFAM^rK. 

I'his Funeral ('ar was one of the most inqiressive features of the 
entire out-door ceremonial. Indeed, it attracted more attention than 
any other portion of the Proces.sion. ft was of large dimensions, and 
so tall (hat it could he seen from afar, above all the ti.ags and banners 
and mounted officers, ft was, besides, of strikingly artistic design, 
— elegant in shape and of rich materials ; and emblematic, in its com- 
ponent parts, in the most felicitous manner, of the piu'pose for which it 
was prepared. 

The base or body of the (Jar was twenty feet long and twenty feet 
wide. This platform had rounded ends and sloping sides, and it was 
covered with black velvet that hung almost to the ground. Along its 

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SL' TIISTOUV OF Til JO 

iiplKT ('(l^if laii iiiaiiy I'cslooiis ol' l>laclv velvet, in llie middle of whicli, 
on ciHuT side oT Hie car, was a runeiai esculriicon or liatchineid, in 
wliicli, \vroni;lit in silver, were tlu' letters "J. A. G." 

!''oiir colunins rose from the plat foini,— one at eaeli corner, — and 
a( a iieiulit o|' nine feet, sniiporled an Oriental cujxtla, crowned liy 
a small dome, (Hi wliicli, twenty-two feet al)ove Ihe Ki'<>ii"il> rested a 
golden I'aicl*'. sliron<Ied in cra|ie. 

Beneath the cii|ioia, in the renire ol' the pjatforni, was a hier 
eis^ht feet long, six feet wide and two feel hi.nii. I'pon this rested a c'lf- 
lin (hat was eoiiipletely hidden heneath a mass of white flowers atid 
everureens, freshly gathered. Upon the eolUii were also placed a large 
cross, ail anchor, and a sliield made ol" ilowers,— symholic of Faith, 
Hope and ( 'harlty. 

The coat-of-arms of the Stale of Lonisaiia decorated the learof Ihe 
lilatiorm ; and that of the United .States, carved and gilt, the front - 
both being draped in crape. 

Sable velvet enwrapped the sleiidci- colnmns,the elegant dome and 
cupola, and the bier, — this dark background Iteing relieved here and 
there by the bright gleaming of silver borders and Itindings. Around 
the base of the cupola, from column to column, were Masonic em- 
blems. 

'I'he ("atafal({ue was drawn l)y six white horses, that were compa- 
ri.soned in large black velvet housings studded with silver stars. The 
horses, stepping slowly and quietly along, as if conscious of the solem- 
nity of the occasion, were led each by a groom dressed in mourning 
attire. 

The Funeral Car, it is proper to state, was designetl by Mr. A. A. 
Maginnis ; was constructed by Mr. W. Muir, and decorated by Mr. H. 
N. Siebrecht. The housings of the horses were the handiwork of Mr. 
Harry Oressel, scenic artist ; the tloral decorations and insignia, of Mr. 
II. Maftre. 

The I'all Keaiers consisted of eight Otticers of the ( Joveriior's Mil- 
itary Stair, and ten representatives of the higher bodies of the Masonic 
Order. 



KUNKRAL CEKEMONIKS. 80 

The StafroMicers were: Col. T. Lee Sluite ; ("ol. (has. A. Lareii- 
(loii; Col. 'i\ Generelly ; Col. E. A. Diicros; Col. (ieo. \V. Diiinv; 
Col. E. C. Payne; Major EE. Wood ; Mnyn \V. H. Kynies, 

The Masonic Pall Hearers were: 

ill- and Lodge: Sylvain Ciianrrau and C. K. l^"ai;t)t ; 

Grand (Jluipter : Louis 8iueer and L )iiis P. Fulda ; 

Grand CoancU : Edward Heath and J. L. rfwaii ; 

Grand Co/isistorij : Krederiek Holyland and K. de P. Villasana ; 

Grand Coiniiiaiukrij : C. A. Scott and ('. H. .Sclieiick. 

The Military (.iiai-d of Honor vViis composed ol'tiie 
C'ONTIXENTAL (H'AKDS, 

who marched by platoons in front oi'and i)chind the Catafahjue. They 
were under tiie command of Captain WiUhain I'Ia'i-vc^ uu ex-Coiifederate 
veteran. 

The First Phitoon, in front of the Car, was conimainled l»y Lieu- 
tenant C. A. Tliie!. 

Tlien came the colors, borne by Color-Sei'geant J. C. Jiood, and 
escorted by tlie (^olor-guard. 

Captain Pierce rode liehind the colors and immediately in front of 
the hearse. 

The Second Platoon followed the car, under eommand of liieuten- 
ant C. \V. Drown. 

The full roll of the Coatlneatal, Guards parading was as follows : 

Captain William Pierce ; Lieut. C A. Tliiel ; Lieut. C. W. Drown ; 
Surgeon W. E. Schuppert ; Color-Sergeant J. C. Hood ; 

Sergeants: J. R. Walton, (t. H. Voungnell, E. B. lleynolds, dfeo. 
S. Petitt; 

Corporals: T. O'CJonnor, P. Ji. (iilmore, T. JIassam, .Ir., JJen 
Lewis ; 

Privates : J. W. Adams, Volney Brown, John Bozant, A. Bow- 
mai\, Voluey Brown, Jr., J. M Coos, G. W. Cooper, W. H. Deeves, G. 
W. England, A. D. Finley, W. S. Ferry, R. H. Hackney, L. P. Julie, 
W. Lacour, W. J. Maltby, M. J. McAdam, E. L. Marmion, Geo. D. 
Moffat, Thos. O'Connor, Jr., W. E. Pendleton, M. R. Pittman, E. M. 
Skinner, J. B. Sullivan, T. J. Swift, S. Steinler, H. C. Thomas, W. H. 
Wrigley, B. H. Watkins and C. H. Warren. 



84 HISTORY OI'" THE 



SliouliJcr (.o shoulder, side hy side, jiiai<-lied in the runks of this fme 
(•(•iiiiiiiiikI. not only t-x-Contt'dciutt' hut ex-Kt'dt'ial vt'teriiiis : soidlcis 
who had served IVotu the h('j;luuin^- to the eiid ol'lhe terrihle civil war 
u ith I lie steads \ alor and eonstaiicy of rneu lighting from the highest 
sense 1)1' dut\ fiu' wlial they deemed (he right. Tlie eouHiet o\-er, they 
had shaken liands like true soldiers ; and ever since, hy their own ex- 
ample, sought to ohliterute tlu- hitter memories of tlie war, cherish 
only such as were worthy of a jiroud renu'nd)rance. and in a (|uic(, 
manly wa_\', l»ring ahoul a general reunion of estranged i)relhren. 

To those of the lookers-on, cogni/..int of llu' dead i'resident's an- 
cestral history, it was a strikingly appropriate coincident that this mil- 
itary (Juard of Honor around his funeral car should wear the pietur- 
es(|ue garh that thi' -Old ( 'on linen tals " had made famous. But it was 
a still more striking and sadly pleasing coincidence that this (iuard 
of Honor should, in the most Southern of Southern cities, so nuirkedl.N 
symholize in its own mend>ershii) ami j^osf-h'/funi history the iiohly 
conciliatory and patriotic priiu'ii>le that inspired the tinest passage in 
the dead President's Inaugural. 

THE THIRD DIVISIOX. 

Had for its Marshal, Bi'igadier-(ieneral Aixikrxox S. Badgef^, 
the \vell-kiu)W'u Collector of the Port. 

His Aids were: Col. William Roy, T. V. Coupland, Oeorge Drury, 
H. (). Hehert, K. V. Hitch, Joseph H. Lawlor, H. O. Maher, W. B. 
Merchant, L. J. Souer. (Jhas. (J. Tracy, York A. Woodward and Alex. 
C. Wells. 

The representatives of the various l)ranches of the State ami City 
Covernment, the Federal Olticials, the Veterans of 1812-15, the Mexi- 
can \\"ar Veterans, the Confederate and Federal Veteran Benevolent 
A.ssociations, the Foreign Consuls, and Delegations from several polit- 
ical, scientific, artistic, educatiomil and henevolent Associations, 
formed the Third Division. Included among them were the City's in- 
vited guests, already nu'ntioned. 

All were in handsome carriages, which ai)peared in the proces- 
sion ami were occu])ied as hereinafter set forth: 



FUNERAT. CEREMONIP^S. ^'•"> 

111 IIk' iVoul ciirr'umc were (lie Hon. SmuuicI l)(iii<;las Mcl'^ncry, 
l/u'iitt'iiaiil (!ov('ni(»r aiul Acliiiy' ( ;()Vci-iuir of llic State, ami the J^()ll. 
Josepli A. Sliaksjicart', iMayoi" of the ( 'it y. 

In llu' second caniaKf wen-: Hon. William A. SlroiiK, Sccrelary 
of Stale,— lion. Allen .Juniel, Slate Auditor, -Hon. Ivl. A. lUirke, 
State 'I'reasm-er, lion. Koliert N. ().t;(len, Speaker, House of IJepreseii- 
tatives. 

In the (liird earrlage were: Hon. F.dwiii Harris, State Senator, 
.')(li Senatorial T^istriet,— Hon. Wni. H Harris, Stale (Nunmissioner 
of AKneullun' and lininigration, — Brigadier-! Jeneral \V. M. Owen, 
Inspeetor General, and Brigadier-! Jeneral (!eo. \V. Dnpre, Coniniissary 
Oeneral, on the (Jovernor's slatr. 

Tn the fourth carriage: Hon. Felix 1'. Poche, Associate .lustiee 
Stale Supreme Court,— Hon. ilohert H. iMarr, ex-CMiief Justice Su- 
l)renie Court, —Judge H. L, Lazarus, of the ('ivil District Court for the 
Parish of Orleans. 

Hon. W. E. Huger, City Administrator of Accounts,— Hon. A. 
Fagan, Administrator of Commerce,— Hon. Ooorge Belamore, Admin- 
istrator of Assessments,— Hon. J. V. (4uillot(e, Administrator of Public 
Buildings and Water Works. 

Hon. Wm. Voorhies, Judge of the Second City Court,— Hon. W. 
H. Holmes, Judge, Third City Court,— Hon. Charles Byrne, of the 
City Board of Police Commissioners. 

Dr. Felix Formento, Dr. Jos. C Beard, and Ed. Hernandez, Esq., 
of the State Board of Health. 

Hon. L. Franz and Hon. P. W. Aitken, of the Third Representa- 
tive District, State Legislature. 

Dr. J. P. Davidson, President, and Dr. D. C. Holliday, of the New 
Orleans Medical and Surgical As.sociation. 

Surgeon PI. W. Austin, local representative of the V. vS. Marine 
Hospital Service. 

Chief Deputy Wm. Walsh, representing Civil Sheriff Thos. DufTy, 
and Messrs. E. Bicker, Paul T. Abadie, A. Moss, J. Koepfer, Wm. 
DufTy, Jas. A. Haley, and Dan. Rees, assistant clerks and deputies,— 
occupying five carriages. 



S»; HISTOKV OF THE 

Hon. Morris >rarks, Collector, and J. J. Pearson, F>S(i., of (lie V. 
S. Internal KeNcnne ( Kticc. 

(ien. Wni. L. Me.Milkn, Po.sliuaster,— ( "ol. Jack Wharton, U. ri. 
Marsiial, — Hon. A. H. Leonard, U. 8. District Attorney,— Hon. Geo. 
L. Noilon, r. S. Snpervisiiiii' inspector. 

Hon. William M. Hurweil, Receiver in, and representing the U. S. 
Land Ottlce.— Captain W'ni. Wright, U. 8. rihipping Commissioner. 

(Ten. Geoige Haldy, Major M. M. Fuller, and Messr.s. O.K. Brews- 
ter, K. H. Barlow, J. M. Bing, A. J. Collyer, W. B. Dickey, C. B. Fish, 
Van K. K. Hilliurd, W. U. Janie8, J. B. Ludwick, and E. K. Ru.%e,— 
delegated to-repi'esent the Grand Aniiij of Hit liepahUc, under Maj<n- 
I'uiler as " Otticer of the Day." 

Hon. M. V". Davis, Superintendent, Chief Clerk W. A. .Steele, and 
.Mr. B. F. Butler, representing the LJ. S. Branch Mint,— J. H. H, 
Tax loi-, representing the \J. S. Sub-Treasury. 

Hon. Wni. C). Rogers, Super) ntendent of City Public Scliool.s;— Col, 
Jos. Collins and F. Stringer, Esij., of the Board of Directors City 
Pnlilic Schools, John J. O'Brien, Secretary of the Board. 

The /W/r///// ro//.s/^/x then appeared, in foui' cai-riages, in the fol- 
low iiiu order : 

1 II the tirst cai'riaKe : A. de (J. l)e Fonblampie. K^^\., Consul for 
(ileal liritaiii ; X'iconite l\iul J>'Alizac, for France ; Don Jose Sanchez 
Ha/.aii, for Spain ; ."-^enor J. F. De Zamacona, for Mexico. 

Ill Ihe second carriage: Mr. John Kruttschnitt, Consnl for (ier- 
iiKiiiy : Dr. John Del Orto, Acting (,'onsul for Italy; Mr. H. P. 
Kliiiiipp, for Denmark; Mr. E. Martinez, for Venezuela. 

! II the third carriage: Baron Ernest Von Meysenberg, Consul for 
Aii-tri.i- Hungary ; Adolphe Schreiber for the Netherlands; J, F. 
Schroeder, for Russia ; Wallace Ogden, for the Argentine Republic. 

In the fourth carriage: Mr. Ci. (Jerdes, Consul tor Norway and 
Sweden ; Monsieur F. Navone, French Vice Consul, and J. F. Broster, 
Es(|.. British ."-^iiipping ('ommi.ssioner. 

The British, French, Spanish and Austria-Hungarian Consuls 
were in uniform, with the hat-ornaments and sword-knots covered 
with crape, and crape bound around the left arm. 



J^'UNEKAL C;EREM0N1E8. ST 

l"'()iir ('!' I he \'(l< rails (if Isli' i 'i, wlio served iiiider (Jell. AikIi'cw 
.Im-ksoii ill tlu' liallles of \ew Orleans, occupied the next ('arriafi;e after 
llie Consuls. Tliey were : ,)aci|iies Kou/,:ni, li Uoiiniiille, James Sniilli , 
and W (). lialialut. 

'I'lies(> veneralile soldieis were (he recipients of many niari<s of 
prolonnd interest and respi'd I'roni the s|)eetat()rs. "\'ear l)y year liieir 
numhers steadily decrease, and only a very few of (hem are now aide 
to take part in piihlic cereiuonlals. 

In six earria,t,^es then appeared a delegation from I'Ik LdiiisiinKi 
AsKocidditn nf III! M<.iii-((n Wnr l^rfiraiis. 

In the first carriage were : George Swarlnic^k, James K. Hissell, L. 
Jveonard, and (J. S. Piiitrello. 

In the second carriage: John McClelland, Wni. iMcIjouylin, and 
Jordan B. Nohle.— "Old Jordan," a colored man, heat the drum Cor 
one of Jackson's regiments at the hattle of JNew Orleans ; then lie fol- 
lowed the drum in the Florida War; then in the Mexican War; and 
lastly, in the " last war." 

in the third carriage; G. Lyman, W. McLean, H. H. INIcV'ey, 
and S. Johnson. 

In the fourth : J. W. Slack, E. P. Lally, F. Tlialler, and >s'icholas 
Scliwah. 

In the fifth: Francis B- Gillan, F. S. Austin, A. H. Parker, and 
Josepli Branners. 

And in the sixth carriage: Captain John Purcell, N. C. Gunnegle, 
Harris Parsons, and J. A. Letten. 

These veterans, — with few exceptions still hale and hearty men — 
rei)resented some two hundred old soldiers, all who are left of the 
Louisiana regiments that took an active part in Taylor's and Scott's 
campaigns and victories in Mexico. 

Tlie next body was a numerous one ; being the Jj<n(/sitni(( Diri- 
sioii of f/iG Benevolent Associa/lou, Armij of Northern Vir(/iiiia. — Their 
President, Col. John P. Richardson, was with his command, the Wash- 
ington Artillery. He was represented by Major E. D. Willett, one of 
the founders of the Association and now its Honorary President. The 
other otiticers with him were : Wm. PI. Ijvman First Vice President : 



SS iU.STOiiV OF THE 

liOiiis I'railos, SfcomI \"u-v rresidfiit : J. Moore Wilson, Third \'ice 
rrcsideiil; N.J. Hooy, i-'oiirth \'ice I'resident; John F. Wax, Filth 
Vii-e President ; Jno. H. Murray, Treasurer; Jno. J. Fitzpatriek, Re- 
rording Secretary ; Fred A. Ober, Corresponding tSeeretary ; Dr. 
Frank li. Taney, Surgeon ; and Jiev. Father Hubert, Cha]>lain. 

The badges of the OHieers and Members of the Association were 
liinged with blark cnipe. 

Next came the Otticers and Members of the Louisiana Division, 
/iriiriU)frNf Association, J rnii/ (>f 'feiinc.sscc. In the absence from the 
City of tile President, J. A. Chalaron, jNIajor John Augustin, First 
\'ici' I'residciil, bad charge of the Assoeiatiou. He was assisted l)y H. 
X. .leukiiis, Second Vice I'resident ; A.J. Jjcwis, Third Vice Presi- 
dent; Jos. I). Tayloi': Recording Secretary ; A. Boisblanc, Financial 
Secretary; S. D. Stockman, Treasurer, and Dr. Y. R. Le ^lonnier, 
Surgeon. 'V\\v Corresponding Secretary, Flugene May, was on duty 
ciscuberc as Major of (be \Nasliington Artillery. — The OHicers and 
Members woi'c Idack crape liadges. 

These various organi/ations of soldiers of many hard-fought (ields 
exicnding Ibrougii more (ban lifty years of American history, were 
closed by llic (,'< riiinii t'liioii ]'ifr/ri/is, who wei e re])resi'nleti l>\' (Ja]i- 
lain Alex. (i.Craal, Henry Ladage, ,b>hn Ij. Kauel, .Jojin L. White, 
F. VV. S<'a[>iit/,, and .Vugiist Siebraiidl. 

Tlie C' //.'/•(•// IlKiicncli ('lull of [yOii.isidiKi followt-d, uudei'tiieir I'res- 
iiienl. Captain J. I'inckucy Smith, and occu[>ying live carriages. The 
other onicers present were: I<L\-( iovernor Jolm McKnery and p]x- 
^^ayor i. W. I'attoii, \'ice I'resideuts, and W. McVicar, Secretary and 
'I'reasurer. I'ne beautiful banners, Hags and giiidons af the Club were 
tas(«'fully draped in mourning. 

Then \\'ii.<hiii(ih)!i Li)fl(i< Nn. .'>, /. <>. <>. F. , bad a delegation, coui- 
posi'd of Jacolt ScbinitI, N. (i.; (xeorge VVollrich, V. ii. pro Inn.; 
Joseph i^'oister, P. (;., and James Nowell, P. (i. 

Ill over a <ln/.eii carriages next came over half a, hundred of tbe 
Members of tiiat well known Club, benevolent, social and musical, the 
AV//t Orlranx LicdcrtajcL Their Oflticers were: Ernest J. Wenck, 
President; Chas. J. A. Doerr, First Vice President; H. Eugelhardt, 
Second Vice President; Solomon Marx, Secretary; Philip Hehn, 



FUNERAL CEREMONIES. 89 

Treasurer; V. 8tubeiirauch, Financial Secretary; W. J. Becker, 
Librarian; Carl Weiss, Musical Director; and Albert J. MichaeliM, 
Ernest Frugst, Sr., and L. Moses, of the Board of Managers. 

The carriages that followed bore a number of the (JlticL-rs and 
Directors of the Lee Monumental Amoviation, as: M. Musson, Second 
Vice President : .S. H. Kennedy. Treasurer; (!aj)tain W. i. Hodgson, 
Recording Secretary ; and W. B. Schmidt, Lloyd 11. Coleman, Archi- 
bald Mitchell, J. .J. Mellon. Alfred Moulton, W. T. Vaudry, E. A. 
Palfrey, H. Renshaw, Jas. M(-Conneil, Jas. .Jackson, Sam'l Boyd. J. C. 
Morris, and Jos. L. Harris, l)i relators. 

In tlie next carriages were the Officers of L' Union Franvaise: F. 
Tujague, President; J. L. Revol, First Vice President; Leon Quey- 
rouze, Second Vice President; H. Billard, Secretary; and A. Doussan, 
Treasurer. — Ex-Maj-or E. P. Pilsbury i-ode with the President as the 
guest of the Society. 

The last carriage in the Division had tlie Officers of the Italian 
Mutual Benevolent Society as follows : .John Rocchi, President ; B. 
Blordone, Vice President ; E- Tmis, Recording Secretary ; and A. M. 
Sf>lari, Treasurer. 

Thei'e was also a number of carriages in the Division not enumer- 
ated above. They bore citizens not connec^ted with any Association or 
any Public Office ; but who desired to take part in the Prooessiou as a 
mark of respect to the memory of the dead Preaident. 

FOUETH DIVISION. 

This Division was composed of the Officers and Members of the 
Steam Fire Engine Companies and the Hook and Ladder Companies 
of the City and its Suburbs. 

They represented, first, the old Fire Department, comprising the 
twenty-five Companies located in the First, Second, Third and Fourth 
Municipal Districts, of which Thos. O'Connor is the Chief Engineer ; 
next, the four Companies located in the Fifth District, formerly 
Algiers, of which the Chief Engineer is Timothy Daly, Jr.; then, the 
four Companies, in the Sixth District, formerly JefTerson City, of which 
H. P. Phillips is Chief Engineer ; and the five Companies in the Sev- 
enth District, better known as Carrollton, of which George Geier is 
Chief Engineer. 
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90 1118TOKY OF THE 



The Companies paraded without their engines and trucks; but the 
men were all in full uniform, and the numerous Company flags and 
banners were draped in mourning. 

The fine band at the head of the Divisions, selected by Chief 
O'Connor, was followed by the Marshal and his Aids, on foot 

The Marshal was that well known and highly esteemed citizen, 
President of the Firemens' Insurance Company, the Hon. Isaac N. 
Makks, who has been connected with the Fire Department every year 
since 1847, and President of the Firemen's Charitable Association con- 
secutively since 1854. 

His Aids were Chief Engineer Thomas O'Connor; First Assistant 
Engineer, Mike Ray ; Second Assistant, A. Muller; Third Assistant, 
James Boyce ; and Fourth Assistant, Archie Boyd. 

The Companies of the First, Second, Third and Fourth Districts' 

FIRE DEPARTMENT 
then came on, marching in the following order, and officered as now 
set forth : 

Volunteer No. 1 — Steam Fire Engine Company. — President, F 
Scheurman; Secretary, A. F. Ewald ; Treasurer, H. B. Whelage ; 
Foreman, John Gurtmen ; First Assistant, Jos. Forster ; Second 
Assistant, Sam. J. Pean. 

Uniform : Red shirts, black pants, and black glazed leather fire 
caps or helmets. 

Afilneburg No. 1 — Steam Fire Engine Company. — Foreman, Felix 
Brune; First Assistant, George Herzad; Second Assistant, Joseph 
Hoffman. 

Uniform : Red shirts, black pants, black glazed leather Are caps. 

Lafayette No. 1 — Hook and Ladder Company. — President, W. J. 
Whiteside; Vice President, P. Slessinger; Secretary, W. Davison; 
Treasurer, A. F. Assenheimer; Foreman, F. C. Carroll; First Assist- 
ant, H. C. Leitz; Second Assistant, F. Kuhn. 

Uniform : Red shirts, black pants, black fire hats. 

Mississippi No. 2— Steam Fire Engine Company. —President, Fred- 
erick Camerden ; Vice President, A. Frellsan ; Secretary, T. J. Letten ; 
Financial Secretary, G. A. Chiapella ; Treasurer, Toby Hart; Foreman, 
Dave C. Hennessey; First Assistant, J. Ludlow; Second Assistant, 
W. Feeney. 



FUNERAL CEEEMONIES. 91 

Uniform: White shirts, blacl? pants, black filazed lire hats. 

American No. 2 —Hook and Ladder Company — President, E. Dur- 

rive ; Vice President, O. P. Miller; Secretary, J. E. Cones; Foreman, 

W. F. Bulacer; First Assistant, Thomas Stone; Second Assistant, P. 

Cavanaxigh. 

Uniform : Red shirts, black pants, and black prlazeii leather tire caps. 

Vigilant No. 3, — Steam Fire Engine Company,— President, H. 
Forschler; Vice President, Arthur Riley ; Secretary, Wlllitmi A. Gar- 
lepied ; Treasurer, Ignalz Kiefer ; Foreman, Henry Liisse ; F'n^t Assist- 
ant, Arthur Courrege ; Second Assistant, John Dubuc 

Uniform : Red shirts, black pants, glazed black leather fire caps. 

Hope No. 3, — Hook and Ladder Companj-.— President. J. Faget; 
Secretary, L. Richards; Treasurer, J. Barnes; Foreman, Win. Swan ; 
First Assistant, P. Magrath ; Second Assistant, E. Brown. 

Uniform: Red shirts, black pants, black glazed leather fire hats. 

Pelican No. 4, — Hook and Ladder Company. — President, Leon 
Bertoli ; Vice President, F. Gu6ringer; Secretary. C. Meric; Treas- 
urer, N. Deudoussat ; Foreman, Henry Andry; First Assistant, Jules 
A. Bonnafon ; Second Assistant, Henry Foucher. 

Uniform : White shirts, black pants, and glazed black leather hel- 
mets. 

Columbia No. 5, — Steam Fire Engine Company. — President, Wil- 
liam McDermott; Secretary, Thomas Riley; Treasurer, M. Bulger; 
Foreman, Thos. Vizard ; First Assistant, P. J. Stuberfield ; Second 
Assistant, Jas. Finnerty. 

Uniform : Red shirts, black pants, black glazed leather hats. 

Louisiana Hose, — Steam Fire Engine Company. — President, Rich- 
ard Charles ; Vice President, E. Borton ; Secretary, Sol. Lion ; Treas- 
urer, F. Wittum; Foreman, E. Scully; First Assistant, M. J. Fitz- 
morris ; Second Assistant, Geo. Earhardt. 

Uniform : Blue shirts, black j^ants, white glazed leather caps. 

Mechanics No. 6, — Steam Fire Engine Company. — President, W. 
J. McCall ; Vice President, E. J. Shearman ; Secretary, W. Nelson ; 
Financial Secretary, J. E. Nayes; Treasurer, J. J. Clarke; Foreman, 
John T. Shaw: First Assistant, Chas. McOhesney ; Second Assistant, 
Daniel Hobbs. 

Uniform : Red shirts, black pants, black glazed leather fire caps. 



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Eagle No. 7~Steaiii Fire Engine Company. — President, James 
Kenni'(l\'; Vice President. (;. Methe; Secretary, (tI. Gast ; Treasurer, 
W. Di'laney ; Foreman, August SehefFer; First Assistant, August 
Thomas; Second Assistant, C. Vuillot. 

I'niform : Red shirts, black pants, lilack glazed fire hats. 

Rhivnix No. S — .Steam Fire Engine Company.— President, G. 
Warters; Vice President, R Masearo ; Secretary, J. Anderson ; Treas- 
urer, .1. Jacobs; Foreman, Tim. O'Neil; First Assistant. Jos. Hewitt; 
Second Assistant, J. J Cronan. 

I'niform : Red shirts, black pants, black glazed leather hats. 

Creole No. 9— Steam Fire Engine Company. — Vice President, H. 
Sass ; Secretary, J. Volrath ; Treasurer. J. Harris. — The President of 
this Company, Uovernor Louis Alfred Wiltz, was absent from sickness 
that was soon to terminate fatally. -Foreman, Robert Brewster; First 
.Assistant, Frank Kattnian ; Second Assistant, L. Sandier. 

rniform : Red sliirts, black pants, black glazed leather tire caps. 

Loni.winn No. l(t — Steam Fire Engine Company. — President, John 
Biihler, Jr.; Vice President, Peter Davis ; Secretary. J. H. Witte ; Treas- 
urer, H. L. Frantz; Financial Secretary, Henry Paul ; Foreman, John 
Journee ; First Assistant. H- G. Federow ; Second Aswistant, Henry 
Volgringer 

Uniform : Red shirts, black pants, and black glazed leather fire hats. 

Irnd Ferry No. 12 — Steam Fire Engine Company. — Vice President, 

T. Trouer; .Secretary, R. H. A. Mooney ; Treasurer, J. Oand. (The 

President, P. Mealey, was on duty elsewhere.) Foreman, J, D. Dun- 

navan ; FMrst Assistant, J. ReiUy; Second Assistant, J. Maginnis. 

Uniform; Red shirts, black pants, white glazed leather fire caps. 

Perseverance No. 13— Steam Fire Engine Company, — President, 
John Fitzpatrick ; Vice President, \V. Tamser ; Secretar3% G. Macias ; 
Trea.surer, J. Leipman ; Foreman, J. J. Kuhner; First Assistant, T. 
Norman ; Second Assistant, John Dempsey. 

Uniform : Red shirts, black pants, and black glazed fire hats. 

Philadelphia No. 14— Steam Fire Engine Company.— President, T. 
Moore ; Vice President, J. Killilea; Secretary, C. Lalment; Foreman, 
C. G. Miltimore; First Assistant, Lewia Martio, Second Assistant, 
John I^acey. 

Uniform ; Red shirts, black pants, black glazed leather fire caps. 



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Jackson No. 18— Steam Fire Engine Company— President, W. 
Comptou ; Vice President, M. Duncan ; Secretary, H. Singer; Becord- 
ing Secretary, P. Macmane ; Treasurer, W. Dastillian ; Foreman, Geo. 
Cumtbrt; First Assistant, Geo. Wilson ; Second Assistant, H. Dunlap. 

Uniform: Red shirts, blade pants, black glazed leather ftrj caps. 

Washington No. 20— Steam Fire Engine Company. -James Weir, 
Foreman, did not turn out, one of its officers, Mr. E. Duffy, having 
died, and his funeral taking place on that day. 

Orleans No. 21— Steam Fire Engine Company.— President, V. 
Mauberret; Vice President, Wm. Higgens ; Secretary, Thomas J. 
Ford; Financial Secretary, V. B. Gonzales; Treasurer, S. B. Gill; 
Foreman, Wm. M. Evans; First Assistant, Ed. Klotz ; Second Assist- 
ant, Jos. E. Thomas. 

Uniform : Red shirts, black pants, and black glazed leather fire 
caps. 

Jefferson No. 22— Steam Fire Engine Company— President, L. 
Henning ; Vice President, A. Leisch ; Secretary, A. Kenney ; Treas- 
urer, C. Kussman; Foreman, F. Kranz ; First Assistant, A. Leitz ; 
Second Assistant, W. Mahne. 

Uniform : Red shirts, black pants, and black glazed leather fire 
caps. 

Chalmette No. 2.B— Steam Fire Engine Company.— President. F. 
Happech ; Vice President, H. Viegler ; Treasurer. Otto Thoman ; Fore- 
man, J. Campbell ; First Assistant, W. Goldsmith ; Second Assistant, 
C. Scherer. 

Uniform : Red shirts, black pants, white glazed leather fire caps. 

Crescent No. 24— Steam Fire Engine Company.— President, J. 
Chevillon; Secretary, J. J. Foster; Treasurer, H. Burhorst; Foreman, 
Herman Miester; First Assistant, John Fay; Second Assistant, J. 
Brandt. 

Uniform : Red shirts, black pants, and black glazed leather fire 
caps. 

St. Bernard No. 1— Steam Fire Engine Company,— First Assist- 
ant, Henry Hoflfman ; Second Assistant, Henry Fleischer, 

Uniform : White shirts, black pants, and black glazed leather fire 
hats. 



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FIFTH DISTRICT DEPARTMENT. 

Now appeared the different Companies from Algiers and Brook- 
lyn, headed by tlieir Chief Engineer, T. Daly, Jr. 

The first Company was : 

Pelican No. 1 — Steam Fire Engine Company. — President, B. 
Kelly; Vice President. Wni. Klien ; Secretary, W. Henry Martin; 
Treasurer, E. Bauman ; Steward, J. M. Fernandez ; Foreman, A. T. 
Fox ; First A.ssistant. W. B. Mead ; Second Assistant, Louis Klien. 

Uniform : Red shirts, black pants, and black glazed fire caps. 

Brooklyn No. 2 — Steam Fire Engine Company. — Foreman, Jos, 
Ward ; First Assistant, William Burke ; Second Assistant, Charles 
Buhler. 

Uniform : Red shirts, black pants, and black fire caps. 

Morgan No. 3 — Steam Fire Engine Company. — Foreman, John 
E. Herbert; First Assistant, E. W. Evans; Second Assistant, W. E. 
Shields. 

Uniform : Red shirts, black panta and black glazed fire caps. 

A delegation from Hook and Ladder Company No. 1, of this Dis- 
trict, was also in line. 

SIXTH DISTRICT DEPARTMENT. 

The march of the five Companies of the Sixth District — formerly 
Jefferson City— was preceded by the elegant United States flag of 
Young America No. 3, draped in mourning. 

The column was led by Chief Engineer H. P. Phillips. 

The first Company following him was : 

Pioneer No. 1, Steam Fire Engine Company. 

Its Officers parading were : 

President Leon Englander ; Vice President, Louis Newald ; Secre- 
tary, Dominique Attenhofer : Assistant Secretary, Wm. Miller ; Treas- 
urer, Chas. Schopp. 

Foreman, Phil. Draube ; First Assistant, Aug.Wetzka; Second As- 
sistant, Wm. Hufendick ; Steward, Mich. Sehipper. 

Uniform : Red shirts, black plants, and black glazed leather fire 
caps. 

Home No. 1, a Hook and Ladder Company. 



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Officers parading : Foreman, C. C Pii>er; First Assistant Jno. 
Hoffman ; Second Assistant, Tlios. De Laney ; Secretary, J. P. Galla- 
ber ; H. Esparbe, Treasurer ; M. O'Connor, Housekeeper.— Tlie Presi- 
dent, Eugene May, and Vice President Hugii Breen, were on duty in 
other Divisions. 

Uniform : Blue shirts, hlacl\ pants, white glazed leather Hre caps. 

Protector No. 3, aSteani Fire Engine Conipriny. 

Officers parading: Foreman, Dave Wicker: First Assistant, T. 
Michel; Second Assistant, William Lowe. 

Uniform : White shirts, black pants, and black fire hats, 

Young America ^\o. 3, a Steam Fire Engine Company. 

The Officers parading were : 

President, Jno. Pertsdorf; Vice President,.!. B Mailbes ; Secre- 
tary, Chas. J. Trouard; Treasurer, Jacob Stentz. 

Foreman, Jos. Batt ; First Assistant, J. E. LeBlanc; Second As- 
sistant, H. Hess ; Steward, S. Seither. 

Uniform: Red shirts, black pants, black glazed leather fire hats. 

Phillips, No. 4, a Steam Fire Engine (Jompany. 

The Officers on parade were : 

President, W .B. Gill; Vice President, (I L. Schopp ; Secretary, D. 
Cohn ; Treasurer, C. L- Voltz. 

Foreman, A. C. Winn ; First Assistant P. J. Kammer ; Second As- 
sistant, A. W. Jackson,— marching, the President and Vice President 
in the centre, the First Assistant on their right, the Second Assistant 
on their left, and behind them the Secretary and Treasurer, followed 
by the Members, by twos. 

Uniform : White shirts, black pants, and red glazed leather fire 
hats. 

All the Officers of the Sixth District Companies had crapt either 
on the arm or on the trumpets. 

SEVENTH DISTRICT DEPARTMENT. 

The three Companies of this District, — otherwise Carrollton — did 
not parade as a Department. The Companies are: Carrollton Fire 
Company No. 1 ; Star Hook and Ladder Company No. 1 ; and Inde- 
pendent Fire Engine Company No. 2. 



96 IIINTOKY OF THE 



A delegation from vStar Hook and Ladder No. 1 appeared with 
Home Hook and Ladder Company, of the Sixth District Department, 
an their gnests ; and another deieKation from Independent Fire Engine 
Company Xo- i^ was with the Young America No. 3, of the Sixth Diss 
trict. 

Tin; Firenien looked exceedingly well in their simple yet very 
handsome and appropriate uniforms. There were fifteen hundred 
men niarcliing in the Division ; and, as with very few exceptions, they 
were in the prime of life, they presented a living picture of manly 
strejigth and gv)od looks that was the more pleasing to behold from the 
knowledge of ti.e admiring thousands that every man was ready at a 
moment's notice to risk lilVand liuih lor liis fellow Juan. 

FIFTH niVLSION. 

The veteran Col. .1. H. Walton, —for over thirty years so intimately 
rf)nnected with the business, i)olitical. and military history of New 
Orleans, and renowned as the commander of the famed Washington 
Artillery in Lee's army — was the appointed Marshal of the Fifth Divis- 
ion. It was a civic duty he had often and ably filled in the years gone 
by. But he was unable, from ill health, to attend to them now ; and, 
at his request, he was relieved by Grand Marshal Behan. who 
appointed to take his place, Judg-e A. L. Tissot. 

Marshal Tissot's Aids were selected from among the Officers of the 
Associations under his command. 

An excellent band opened the march of the twelve large Mutual 
Benevolent Societies comprising this Division. 

The first of them, led by their own Marshal, A. Prados, Jr., were 
the 

YOUNG men's benevolent ASSOCIATION. 

The Officers parading were: 

•John W. Bryant, President; J. A. Strasser, Vice President; N. P. 
Henley, Recording Secretary ; L. Schneider, Financial Secretary ; S. 
Sutter, Treasurer ; L. F. Sivori. Conductor; E. Keehn, Jr., Warden ; 
B Spahrer, Inside Guardian; S. Johnson, Outside Guardian ; Drs. W. 
Fi. Scluipport and H. Bezou, Physicians. 



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There were two hundred of the Members out, though that does not 
inchide the full membership. All were dressed alike, in black suite, 
and wore mourning badges. In front were carried, draped in mourn- 
ing, the Association's white silk flag, the Union Jack, the 8tars and 
Stripes, and the Association's old banner, of silk, bearing their name 
and a device of clasped hands, with the motto, " We are United." 

Nextappeared, underthe guidance of their own Marshal, Charles 
Morel, the 

BENKVOLENT ASSOCIATION, SONS OF LOUISIANA, 

whose Officers parading were : James Campbell, President ; Ernest 
Morel, First Vice President; L. J. Courtin, Second Vice President ; 
A. J. Malone, Recording Secretary ; George D. Dolan, Secretary ; Dr. 
F. Formento, Physician ; L. Roger, Collector, and John R. Legeir, 
Treasurer. 

Four hundred of the six hundred Members appeared. They wore 
black coat, vest, and pants, and black hat; and on each coat lappel, in 
addition to the Association's regular badge, was a mourning badge of 
black velvet trimmed with white. 

Their ensign-bearers carried, first : the Association's own special 
silk banner, showing, embroidered on a red ground, a pelican feeding 
its young ; then three United States flags, the Union Jack, and the 
flag of Louisiana— all of silk, and furled, and edged with black crape. 

The third organization in the Division was the 

YOUNG men's gymnastic CI-UB, 

whose Officers, at their head were: Ed. J. Gu^ringer, President; J. A. 
Connors, Vice President ; H. Garrot, Corresponding Secretary ; M. D. 
Gardner, Recording Secretary ; V. Le Beau Rouelle, Financial Secre- 
tary ; E. Moses, Treasurer; A. P. Blum, Cliief Instructor; Robt. Ger- 
non, Assistant Instructor, and A. O. Hebrard, Collector. 

Some two hundred and fifty Members of the Club were in line. 
They were attired all in black cloth suits, and wore the Club badge 
and a mourning badge. 

The Club banner, of silk, was flanked on either side by a United 
States flag, of silk, all looped up with crape. Embroidered on one 

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98 HISTORY OF THE 



side of the bauner, on u white ground, was the ("hib badge, and on the 
oilier side tlie eoat-of-urniis of Louisiana. 

Under tlieir Marshal, Adalbert Vedrenne, next eanie the 

SOUTIIKUN -AIUTTAh KKNi; VOhKNT ASSOCIATION. 

Tlie Oilicers were : Jolni H. Manuel, President; John Sleninier, 
Sr., Vice President; Otta jSToha, Recording Secretary ; Francis T). Pey- 
ronnin, Financial Secretary, and Henry Werhan, Jr., Treasurer. 

Although but recently organized, the Association mustered on 
parade, nearly a hundred of its Members, leaving not two dozen of 
them absent. They were dressed in black suits, and each wore a 
mourning badge pinned to the badge of the Association. 

Attlu; head of the Society were carried the United States Hag and 
the Union Jack, both of silk, furled and draped in mourning. 

That popular organization, the 

I'EIylOAN BENEVOLENT ASSO(IATIf)N, 

appeared, uiuler their Marshal, Charles T. Soniat. 

Tlie Oflicers parading were ; 

Dr. Fi. Doumeing, Vice President ; Ijouie Hardel, Recording Sec- 
retary ; F. LaTubert, Financial Secretary, and Louis Cucullu, Treas- 
urer. 

The President, Judge 'i'issot, acted, as already stated, as Marshal 
of the Division. 

There were nearly three hundred Members in line, all dressed in 
black cloth suits, and displaying appropriate badges of mourning. 

The elegant silken banner of the Association had a life-size figure 
of a pelican embroidered on a red ground, and was fringed with gold 
and golden tassels. 

'I'he banner bore this significant motto : Nan Sibi Sed Suis—'' Not 
for Ourselves but for Otliers." 

Next appeared, all in carriages, led by their Marshal, W. H. 
Smith, the 

CLAIBORNE SOCIAL, CLUB. 

Officered as follows: Thomas J. Ford, President; John J. Cronan, 
First Vice President ; H. (?. Fincke, Second Vice President ; E. J. Sul- 
livan, Recording Secretary ; John A. Brennan, Financial Secretary ; 
and F. .lungel. Treasurer. 



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There were nearly one hundred ol" the Members in the procession, 
all attired in black cloth suits, with white vests, white gloves, and 
black silk hats, and wearing each besides the badge of the Club, a spe- 
cial mourning badge. 

The Claiborne Club was followed by the 

YOUNG men's EXCETjSIOR HKNKVOLENT ASSOCIATION, 

under the guidance of their Marshal, Paul St. Philip. 

Their Officers were : Eugene Mestier, I'rerfident ; Joseph Silentos, 
Vice President; George J. Viosca, Recording Secretary ; E. H. Watt, • 
Financial Secretary; Louis L. Mestier, Treasurer; Edward Dunn, 
Collector, and .Tames Doran, Warden. 

There were nearly two hundred Members in line, preceded by thi-ee 
ensign bearers, one carrying a United States tiag ; the second, the 
Union Jack ; and the third the handsome white silk Hag of the Asso- 
ciation, with the insignia of clasped hands and the motto, " Our Aim, 
to Excel." The flags were all three looped up with black crape. The 
Officers and Members wore mourning. 

Under their Marshal, P. Bernard, came next in order the 

PIKE BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION. 

The Officers parading were: F. H. Robinson, President; Chas. 
Henriehs, Vice President ; B. Ring, Recording Secretary ; John M. 
Hamkel, Financial Secretary ; H. L. Wetzel, Treasurer ; E. A. Morel, 
Conductor; W. H. Rugen, Warden; R. B. Maher, Inside Guardian ; 
S. Decker, Outside Guardian ; J. A. SchefFel, Collector; and Dr. J. A. 
Folwell, Physician, 

One hundred Members appeared, dressed in black cloth suits, and 
wearing mourning badges. 

The Ensigns carried the United States flag, the white silk flag of 
the Association, and their new and elegant banner, received by them 
on the day of the procession. It is of silk, tastefully embroidered. On 
the front appears on a white ground, a life-size portrait of the late 
Wm. S. Pike, one of New Orleans' most public spirited citizens. On 
the reverse of the banner is the monogram of the Association and the 
date of its organization. 



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100 mSTOKY OF THK 



Marshal (icorge Sieger, with Assistant Marshal Fritz Witekamer, 
led the way for the 

OKUMAX LOUISIANA DRAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 

The Officers were: Conrad Konzlemann, President; Anton Walle, 
Vice President; Edward T. Hansen, Recording Secretary; Edward 
Ehard, Financial Secretary ; Friedrich Schmidt, Treasurer. 

Some two hundred, stalwart men, all dressed in black, and wear- 
ing neat mourning badges, marched behind the Officers. The United 
States flag, the German flag, and that of the Association, all of silk, 
were draped in mourning. The Association's flag has their name 
tastefully embroidered on it, on a blue ground. 

Following the Draymen came the 

ST. MARY'S GERMAN ASSOCIATION. 

The Officers parading were: Nicholas Yochum, President ; J. B. 
Schmidt, Vice President ; J. Prigge, Recording and Financial Secre- 
tary ; G. Sievers, Assistant Secretary, and M. Huber, Treasurer. 

Sixty-five Members were in line, dressed in black suits, with 
mourning badge, and with the American flag looped up with crape. 

Under the leadership of their Marshal, George Remme, appeared 
next the 

LAFAYETTE YOUNG MEN'S BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION. 

Their Officers were: A. C. Brackman, President; A. Graf. Jr., 
First Vice President; P. Hoelzel, Jr., Second Vice President; A. J. 
Remme, Recording Secretary ; G. M. Mondage, Financial Secretary; 
W. A. H. Cross, Assistant Secretary ; Joseph Weginan, Treasurer, and 
S. Western, Collector. 

Nearly two hundred young mon were in line, dressed all in black 
suits, and wearing crape on their badges. Before them were carried, 
draped with black crape, a handsome silk United States flag and the 
Association's elegant white silk banner. 

Next marched the 

ST. GEORGE YOUNG MEN'S BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION, 

led by their Marshal, A. Briermann. 

The Officers were: Frank Von der Haar, Acting President, in the 
absence of the President ; A. Schmidt, Vice President ; John Werner, 



FUNERAL CEREMONIES. 101 



Recording Secretary ; Jacob Bocs, Financial Secretary ; Chas. Pauly, 
Assistant Secretary; F. Bruseau, Treasurer ; E. Schinne, Librarian, 
and A. Gilliard, Warden. 

The Association turned out its full roll of Members, sixty in num- 
ber, neatly dressed in black cloth suits, and wearing mourning badges. 

The splendid silk banner of the Association attracted general 
admiration. It was made to order in Munich, Bavaria, and is con- 
sidered to be one of the finest works of art, of its kind, in the United 
States. 

The Fifth Division turned out over twenty-two hundred men. 



SIXTH DIVISION. 

The tall, manly figure of Administrator P. Mealey, bestriding 
a spirited charger, headed the long column of tlie Sixth Division,— 
composed chiefly of the stalwart men who do the hardest part of the 
work in handling the vast amount of imports and exports at this port. 

Marshal Mealey had for his Aids two portly citizens, as well 
known and as well mounted as himself. They were John Mahoney, 
of the Cotton Yardmen's Association, and John EUwood, of the Screw- 
men's Association. 

The Division moved at slow pace to the dirge-like strains of a large 
brass band. The march was opened by the 

HIBERNIA BENEVOLENT AND MUTUAL AID ASSOCIATION. 

Their Officers were: Thomas J. B, Flynn, President; John T. 
Gibbons, Vice President ; H. H. Ward, Secretary, and Hugh Breen, 
Treasurer. 

There were nearly three hundred men in line, neatly attired in black 
cloth suits, with mourning emblems on the green badges, scarfs, and 
other insignia they wore. The United States flag, the elegant banner 
of the Association, and the silken green flag of old Ireland, bearing 
the harp embroidered in gold, were draped in mourning. 

Then came forward in solid ranks, Branch No. 1, of the 



LUli HlSTOliY OF THE 



COTTOX VAKDMKN'S BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION. 

The Officers parading were: Dan Mahouey, First Vice President, 
acting in tlie absence of President P. Mealey, on other duty; Michael 
Woods, Second Vice President; James Roche, Recording Secretary; 
Jolin Nohin, Assistant Recording Secretary; James L. Morris, Finan- 
cial Secretary ; Jacob Boes, Assistant Financial Secretary ; and Harry 
B. Wheelage, Treasurer. 

Over seven hundred strong, stoutly built men, — nearly all young,— 
api)eared in the ranks, dressed alike in well-fitting black cloth suits, 
white vests, white gloves and black silk hats. On each coat lappel 
appeareii the badge of the Association, with a mourning rosette 
attached. A large silken United States flag, draped in mourning, was 
borne at the front. 

Following the Cotton Yardmen now appeared one of the lax-gest and 
oldest organizations in the city — namely, the 

screwmen's benevolent association. 

Theii Oflicers were: Joseph J. Lester, President; Philip Q,uaile, 
.Jr., I^'irst Vice President; Henry Gilmore, Second Vice President; 
Joseph Coady, Recording Secretary; John Herveau, Jr., Financial 
Secretary ; Archibald Keir, Assistant Secretary ; and John Houlgrave, 
Treasui'er. 

Nearly nine hundred of the thousand Members of the Association 
followed their Officers. They marched four abreast, stepping together, 
heads up, almost with military precision ; and being with very few 
exceptions, in the prime of life,— square-shouldered, large framed and 
strong limbed,— they commanded universal admiration. 

The Members were dressed alike in black cloth suits, white vests 
and gloves an<i black silk hats. Officers and members wore their usual 
regalia— elegant broad blue silk baldrics and aprons with gold and sil- 
ver trimmings, and also the badge of mourning. 

The United States flag and the Association's' beautiful banner were 
draped in mourning. Tlie banner is of blue silk, embroidered in gold 
braid. The stall' is surmounted by an eagle holding in its beak a silken 
streamer, tri-colored. On the front of the banner is depicted a ship 
under full sail ; on the reverse, a group representing a widow and her 



FUNERAL OEEEMONIKS. 103 

cliildren, homeless anddestituto, being eared for by Serewnieii. AV)ove, 
is tlie motto of the Association, " Upward and Onward." 

The Screwmen were followed by an orji:;aiiizati()n nesirly tiieir equal 
in numbers, though not of so many years. This was — led l)y their 
Marshal, John E. Dufty— the 

J.ONUSHORKMEN'S HENf:VOI.10NT ASSOCIATION. 

The Officers who paraded were : 
Thomas Flaherty, President; Peter Hetherman, First Vice President; 
John Kelley, Second Vice President; Wm. Hwayne, Recording Secre- 
tary; John Dillon, Financial Secretary; ('has. Hassinger, Jr., Treas- 
urer ; and Gregory Fitzgerald, Sergeant-at-arms. 

Near seven hundred Longshoremen— (and that was not all of them) 
—stalwart, hearty looking men— marched close together : their dress 
being black coat and pants, white gloves, and black felt hat, and each 
man had the Association's badge of mourning, with crape attached. 
The American flag, draped in mourning, was carried in front. 

Marshal Albert Dennett rode at the head of the 

J^ONGSHOBEMEN AND GRAIN TBIMMEKS' ASSOCIATION, 

whose Officers were : James Cunningham, President ; Joseph Brown and 
E. Delesdernier, Vice Presidents ; James Malloy, Secretary ; Charles 
Timpi, Financial Secretary ; Daniel Broderick, Treasurer ; and John 
Clements, Sergeant-at-arms. 

Three hundred of the Members of this hard working organization 
paraded. Their physical appearance was equally as manly as that of 
their co-workers along the Levee. Their dress was plain black ; and 
each man wore a simple mourning emblem, whilst their stout banner- 
bearer held high above their heads the broad folds of the American 
flag, looped up in crape. 

The well known form of that popular citizen, Mr. Peter Kiernan, 
in full regalia, was next recognized, as he rode in front of the 

ANCIENT OBDER OF HIBERNIANS. 

Mr. Kiernan is the National Delegate of the Order. He was assisted 
by Mr. Ben. Kelly, State Delegate and Mr. M. J. Barrett, County Dele- 
gate. 



104 HISTOKY OF THE 



The Lodges of the A. O. H. appeared as follows : 

Lodge No. 1.— John MoCloskey, President; Daniel Murphy, Vice 
President; and Daniel J. Murphy, Secretary. 

One hundred and fifty Members in line. 

Lodge No. 2.— Robert C. Davey, President; D. Horigan, Vice 
President; Thomas Kavanagh, Secretary. 

One hundred and ten Members in line. 

Lodge No. 4. — P. Quinn, President; Wm. McCarthy, Secretary. 

Sixty Members in line. 

The Officers and Members, in their handsome uniform and regalia, 
recalling the equipments of the Knights Templar, though more 
showy — made one of the most striking features of the procession. All 
wore mourning emblems, and the flags of each Lodge were draped in 
sable insignia. 

F'rom across the Mississippi, — as representing the industrious and 
intelligent handicraftsmen of Algiers, where for years so much ship 
and steamboat work has been carried on — came first, the 

SHIP CARPENTERS' AND JOINERS' BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION. 

Their Officers were : William Jones, President ; R. Kammerer, 
Vice President ; H. J. Kepper, Recording Secretary; H. Thompson, 
Financial Secretary ; A Lennox, Treasurer, and N. Chesnut, Warden. 

There were sixty Members in line. The Association was organized 
only in July, 1881, but made an excellent appearance, despite its brief 
period of existence. 

The Ship Carpenters and Joiners were closely followed by their 
co-workers in the Algiers docks and ship-ways, namely 

THE CAULKERS' ASSOCIATION, 

whose Officers were: John Smith, President; G. Chaperon, Vice 
President; E. Brunct, Secretary; G. Haltere, Treasurer, and William 
Durkis, Guardian. 

Tliere were over one hundred men in the ranks. The two Associ- 
ations appeared in black suits, black hats, white gloves, and plain 
mourning badges, and their flags and banners were draped in black 
crape. 



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This Division liad three thousand four hundred men in line, — 
splendidly representing the bone and sinew of the great Southern 
commercjial metropolis. 

SEVENTH DIVISION. 

This Division, (Composed almost entirely of Societies whose mem- 
bers were natievs of France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and other Conti- 
nental European countries, had for its Marshal one of the chief offlcers 
of tlie Governor's Staff", Brigadier General J. B. Vinet. 

His Aids were selected by him from the leading otflcers of the 
Societies under his direction. 

A fine band of music led the way for that old established and influ- 
ential Association, the 

FRENCH 3IUTUAJ. BENEVOLENT SOCIETY. 

Their President, .1. LeBlanc, after i^laciug them in position, had 
reported to Marshal Vinet as one of his Aids. 

The other Officers of the Society in line were: A. Castel, Treas- 
urer; S. Simon, Secretary; and Directors, P. P. Chabert, A. Lafuma, 
J. M. Lafferanderie, A. Mailhes, G. P<Srez, J. L. R6vol, G. S6nac, and 
G. Tujague. 

The Society has nearly fifteen hundred members enrolled, but a 
great many of them paraded with other organizations, military and 
otherwise, to which they belonged. As it was, there were five hundred 
men in the ranks. They wore, besides crape on tlie arm, the Society's 
regular badge : the American shield, made of silver, the French flag in 
the centre, and the inscription, "Soci6t6 Fran^aise. The color bearers, 
.T. Bonnaf^ and L. Duclos, carried the American and French flags, 
loojied up with black crape. 

Under their regular Marshal, Jos. Cavellero, with his Aids, C 
Kreis, J. Padrino, M. Scalliceia, and A. Monteleone, then apjjeared 
the 

NEW LUSITANOS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION. 

Their President, H. Pretus, was with Marshal Vinet. His duties 
were performed by C. Camille, First Vice President, who was ac- 
companied by E. Duvoisin, Second Vice President; Emile J. Sander, 
Secretary ; M. Truch, Treasurer ; and Jno. Suarez, Collector. 

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I()() HISTOKY OF THE 



Over two hundred membeo's were in line, with handsome badges 
and white rosettes,— the insignia of mourning floating from the Amer- 
ican flag and the elegant banner of the Association. 

Next marched, under their Marshal, M. (iuentin, the— 

FRENCH DEMOCRATIC CLUB, 

which Society paraded with two hundred men, who wore tri-color 
badges, witli crape on tlie arm, and had the French and American 
flags looped up in crape. 

Their President, N. Bouvier, acting as Aid to the Division Mar- 
shal, the First Vice President, V. Marty, assumed his duties. The 
other Officers were: H. Museau, Second Vice President; R. Lafon- 
taine, Third Vice President ; Charles Guerre, Secretary ; and E Cham- 
pon. Treasurer. 

That veteran organization, the 

LUSITANIAN PORTUGUESE BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION, 

appeared next in the column, under the leadersliip of their Marshal, 
G. Lafauci, and his Aids, Wm Mercadal, F. Renduales, V. Caro, A. 
Lambert and L. Frantz. 

The First Vice President, Peter Barbarich, replaced the President, 
John Mercadal, on duty with Gen. Vinet. The other Officers were, 
the Second Vice President, J. P. Naudon ; the Recording Secretary, 
Jos. Barangue, Jr.; the Financial Secretary, Chas. Spitzfaden ; the 
Treasurer, Aug. Marchal ; and P. P. Flores, Guardian. 

They were followed by two hundred of the Members, who wore 
black badges on the arm ; and the splendid banner of the Association 
was tastefully decorated with mourning drapery. 

Then came on the 

UNITED SCLAVONIAN BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION, 

in front of wliom rode their Marshal, Gasjxir Slabowsky, and his Aid, 
Antonio Carsolich. 

There were fifty Members in line, oflicered by Vice President 
Antonio J. Bajurin ; Matthew Radovich, Recording Secretary; and 
Chr. Syvel, Financial Secretary. President John Radovich was act- 
ing as Aid to the Marshal of Division. 



FUNERAL CEREMONIES. 107 



The American flag and the Association's beautiful silk banner 
were festooned with crape ; the Officers and Members wore, besides the 
badge of the Association, badges of blue, red, and wliite, which are the 
Sclavonian colors. 

Next appeared that old and influential organization, the 

SPANISH UNION BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION, 

which date their origin back to the year 1829. They were led by their 
Marshal, JosC Ferrer. 

The President, Thomas Jorda, appointed on the staff of Marshal 
Vinet, was represented by the First Vice President, Carlos Menendez, 
who was accompanied by the Second Vice President, Manuel Fernan- 
dez ; the Secretary, A. Alvarez Galan ; and the Treasurer, Benito 
Vega. 

Attired all alike, in fine black broadcloth suits, black silk hats and 
white vests and gloves, two hundred and fifty Members marched in 
close ranks, wearing mourning insignia and the Association's neat 
metal badge, on which appears the Spanish coat of arms. The Ameri- 
can flag, the Spanish flag, and several handsome silk banners were 
displayed, all profusely festooned in black. One of the banners was 
peculiarly appropriate. It had in the centre a portrait of the deceased 
President, enframed in a mourning wreath, the whole covered by a 
thin black veil, decorated with black streamers. 

Marshal Pierre Setze rode at the head of the 

butchers' BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION, 

who turned out two hundred solid, hearty looking men in line. Offi- 
cers and members were dressed in black, with white gloves, and crape 
on the arm, and wore the badge of the Association, which is a hand- 
some silver pin for the Members and one of gold for the Officers. The 
banner of the Society was appropriately draped in black. 

The President, Paul Esteben, rode at the head of the Division, as 
one of the Marshal's Aids, and his position in front of the Association 
was taken by Vice President Antoine Luigi, who was accompanied by 
the Secretary, Guillaume P6rfes, and the Treasurer, Bernard MaylitS. 

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108 lliaTOKY OK THE 



ST. BARTIIOLOMKW ITALIAN BENEVOLENT SOCIETY, 

whicli i)araded in large numbers, under the leadership of their Mar- 
shal, Ignatzio Catanzaro, and his Aids, Joseph Taranto and John 
liasilc. Vice President Joseph Pieone liad charge of the Society, his 
superior officer, President John Bertucci, being on duty with the 
Division Marshal. 

Tlie American and Italian flags, furled, and wrapped in mourn- 
ing, were borne at the head of the Society, and the officers and mem- 
bers, dressed in black, wore handsome mourning badges of black and 
gold. 

The Seventh Division paraded, officers and members, eighteen 
liundred men. 

THE COLORED SOCIETIES. 

The three Divisions that closed the Procession— the 8th, 9th and 
10th — were composed entirely of Associations of our Colored Citizens. 
The deep interest they took in this memorable ceremonial was amply 
evidenced in the large number of these Associations in the parade; 
tlieir full ranks; and the jiains they took, even to the poorest, humblest 
man, to appear neatly dressed. The great majority of them were hard 
working men, entirely dependent on their day's labor for support; 
but they j^romptly gave up the day, in compliance with the request of 
the Authorities, to the solemn observance of the obsequies ; and their 
quiet, serious bearing showed that they well understood the meaning 
and importance of the occasion. 

EIGHTH DIVISION. 

The Marshal of this Division, Col. James Lewis, — Ex-City and 
ex-Federal Official, and widely known, — had for his Aids : G. A. 
Fayerweather, recently of the City School Directors; Edward Jackson, 
Recording Secretary of the Ex-U. S. Colored Soldiers' and Sailors' 
Union ; and Charles B. Wilson, Wm. James, Henderson McCray, and 
i'eter Jirown, Officers of the G. U. Order of Odd Fellows. 

The Pickwick brass band opened the march of the Division, and 
of the 

EX-U. S. SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' UNION, 

who were led by their own Marshal, Kichard Shepperd, and Deputy 
Marshal, J. C. Miller. 



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The Officers who paraded were : Thos. W. Wickhara, President ; 
J. n. Huntun, First Vice President; S. S. Decker, Second Vice Presi- 
dent; A. W. Tlionipson, Kinaneial Secretary; C. F- lirown, Treas- 
urer; II H. Taylor, Quarteruiaster ; and Rev. Wesley Bell, Chaplain. 

The Members, formed into two conii)anics, marched in column of 
fours and turned out one Iiundred and sixty-five men, rank and file. 
Eacli man wore a special badge of mourning, and the United States 
tiag, borne at the liead of the command, was furled in black crape. 

Next appeared, making a very handsome display, the different 
representative Bodies of the 

GRAND UNITED ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS, 

whose charter derives from the English Odd Fellows, and whose 
Lodge Officers bear the same titles as those of the English, namely : 
Past Noble Father, Noble Father, Past Noble Grand, Noble Grand, 
Vice Grand, Permanent Secretary, Elec. Secretary, Worthy Treas- 
urer, Worthy Chaplain, Right Supporter, Left Supporter, Warden, 
Inside and Outside Guardians, and Conductor. 

The first of the Order to appear, was, — preceded by Marshal Fran k 
Bridget, — tlie 

Louisiana District Lodge No. 21, represented by the Most Vener- 
able Patriarch A. A. Gaines, Deputy District Master,— Past Worthy 
Grand Master, J. B. Gaudet, now District and Corresponding Secre- 
tary ; and by Past Noble Father, H. C C. Astwood, of the District 
Executive Committee. — They were in carriages, with, as guests of the 
Lodge, A. Dejoie, P. G. M., of P. G. M. Council No. 30, and E. Parker, 
P. N. F. 

Then marched on foot, in soldierly order, under command of J. P. 
Brown, Most Venerable Patriarch, 

Orleans Patriarohie Lodge No. 7, which is a semi-military body, 
carrying bare swords, and wearing a very handsome uniform, with 
cocked hat and plumes. 

Their Officers parading, were: J. C. Graves, M. V. P.;— Isidro 
Reirras, R. V. P.;— F. R. Burns, P. P.;— L. D. Thompson, P. S.;— J. 
G. Taylor, P. S.; and C P. Spotts, P. K. 



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The Patriiirchie luul twenty-two of its Members in line, besides the 
Orticers. 

Next came on foot the Officers and Members of 

J'ast Grand Masters Council No. 30, with twenty-four of the Mem- 
bers hi Hne, and their banner in mourninj^. 

Tlie Officers were: Wni. Justice, G. G.; Levy Morris, G. W.; 
Allen A. Goins, G. S. A.; Frank Conners, G. T.; James Smith, G. S.; 
MacC. Cami)field, D. G. M.; James Brook, G. M.— Chas. B. Wilson, 
W. C, was on duty as Aid to Marshal Lewis. 

This Council was followed by the Fast Noble Fathers of various 
Lodges, marching two abreast, and numbering twenty-eight in all. 

The Subordinate Lodges followed, as now noted : 

Crescent Lodge No. 1646, whose Officers on parade, were ; D. B. 
Sanders, P. N. F.; Ed. A. Halsey, P. N. F.; H, Green, N. F.; Robert 
Simmons, P. N. G.; Joseph Cheri, N. G-; P. ¥. Stephens, V. G.; E. P. 
Rose, E. S.; A. P. Boyer, W- T.; Henry Parker, W. C; C. Harris, I. 
G. The Permanent Secretary, Chas. B, Wilson, Avas on duty else- 
where. 

There were ninety-five of the Members in the ranks ; and the 
Lodge banner, the American and English flags were in mourning. 

Fride of Louisiana Lodge No. 1529, came next in order, their 
Marshal being John Jones. 

The Officers parading were: Benjamin Anderson, P. N. F.; J. R. 
Collins, P.N. F.; Peter Joseph, N. F.; Augustus Turner, P. N. G.; 
John H. Taper, N. G.; Prince King, V. G.; Joseph B. Smith, P. S.; 
Louis Erwin, E. S.; J. Little, W. C; Henry Fields, W.; Isaac Gray, 
I. G.; James Johnson, R, S. to N. G.; T. Ewell, L. S. to ]^. G.; W. W. 
Cottles, R. S. to V. G.; J. McKeever, L. S. to V. G. 

There were seventy-seven Members in line, with the American 
and English flags and the Lodge banner in mourning. 

Emblem of Fr ogress Lodge No. 1507. Marshal John H. Thompson 
was at the head of this Lodge, whose Oflicers appeared in the follow- 
ing oi'der : 

Harry C. Webster, P. N. F,; G. L. Lawrence, P. N. F.; John 
Ricliards, N. F ; Frank P. Lomez, P. N. G.; Robert Hamilton, N. G.; 
C. F. Brown, V. G.; John H. Brandon, p]. S.; Graham Bell, W. T.; 



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N. H. Salico, W. C; V. Jones, R. S. to N. G.; A. Conway, L. S. to N. G.; 
Armstrong Smith, II. S. to V. G-; J. Hurch, L. S. to V. G.; John Chris- 
topher, W.; and Louis Bordas, I. G.— The Permanent Secretary, F. 
R. Burns, was on duty with tlie Patriarchie Lodge. 

Eighty Members were i)i line, of whom five as color-bearers carried 
the Lodge banner and the American and the English flags, in mourn- 
ing. 

Marshal Thomas J. Hill led on 

Atnps Lodge No. 1487, with its Officers as follows : 

S. Chapman, P. N. F.; J. L. Davis, P. N. F.; J. McKinsey, N. F.; 
W. Freeman, P. N. G.; Olivier Thompson, N. G.; Geo. Washington, 
V. G.; F. A. Wilson, P. S.; Samuel Kinney, E S.; Geo. Thomas, W. 
T.; John Norrington, W. C-; and A. Deverges, I. G. 

In line were eighty of the Members, and this Lodge like the others 
had its banner and the American and English Flags looped up in crape. 

Butler Lodge No. 1336 closed this column of the Division. Its 
Marshal was Robert Harris, and its Officers were 

A. E. Train, P. N. F.; J. P. Roddy, P. N. F.; H. McTntyer, N. F.; 
Taylor Sharkey, P. N. G.; L. D. Parker, N. G.; John H. White, V. 
G.; Jas. A. Sanders, P. S.; J. R. Davis, E. S.; J. W. Burns, W. T.; P. 
Bergeron, W. C; and G. Radleaux, I. G. 

There were seventy-five Members of this Lodge in the ranks, with 
the American and English flags and the Lodge banner drai)ed in 
mourning. 

The Officers and Members of the different degrees of the G. U- O. 
of O. F., as above set forth, all appeared in their regalia, of varied form 
and color, some of them very richly embroidered, and each man wore 
a mourning badge. — The English flag was borne by the Lodges because, 
as before stated, the Order derives its authority from ths English Odd 
Fellows. 

The Order paraded five hundred and sixty Officers and Members. 

Following this Mystic Society appeared the benevolent Associa- 
tion, the 

UNITED SONS OF HONOR, 

of whom there were one hundred and fifty Members in line. They 
were led by their Marshal, Nathan F'owler, whose Aids were, Wm. 
Taylor, Richard Davis, Geo. Smith, and Malone Johns :)n. 



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The Ofticors parading were: William Kinney, President; Philip 
Pucker, Vice President; G. W. Doakes, Secretary; Napoleon Wil- 
liams, Treasurer, and Wm. Johnson, Trustee. 

Officers and IMembers wore black coat and pants, white vests, 
white gloves, and black hats, and each had a mourning badge. The 
American Hag was in the front, draped in mourning. 

Tlie Eighth Division was closed by the 

ST. .JAMES JiENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION, 

with one hundred and twenty-five men in the ranks, a new silk ban- 
ner in mourning, and each of the members witli a mourning l)adge. 
The President, John Baptiste, had a mourning scarf. The Associa- 
tion wore black suits, black hats, white vests and white gloves. 
The Eighth Division had one thousand men in the ranks. 

NINTH DIVISION. 

The Maksiiaj^ of this Division was the Hon. A. J. Dumont, ex- 
State Senator, and since then, U. S. Naval Officer at this Port. 

He had for his Aids: C. C. Antoine, M. J. Kenner, R. F. Guichard, 
J. Madison Vance, Charles Davis, Isaac N. Parker, James Johnson, 
Wm. H. Green, and Joseph Valentine. 

An excellent brass band opened the niai'ch of the Division, which 
was headed by the 

Magnolia Longshorf lae n\'i Asi^ockifloti. — It turned out ninety-five 
strong. The Officers and Members were in black suits, with white 
vests, white gloves, black hats, and white rosettes on blue badges. 

They were led by Marshal F. Geaton, whose Aids were M. Brown, 
Charles White, John Willis and Wm. King. 

The other Officers of the Association were ; Arthur White, Presi- 
dent ; Abraham Wilkerson, First Vice President ; Isaac Myers, Second 
Vice J'resident; Wm. Ij. Ford, Financial Secretary; G. A. McCullum, 
Recording Secretary; G. W. Washington, Grand Councillor, and H. 
Simms, First Councillor. 

That numerous organization. Branch No. 2 of the 

Screivmcn's Benevolent Association was next in column. Their 
regular Marshal, Isaac P. Parker, being on duty as Aid to Marshal 
Dumont, his position was held by his Assistant, Edward Thomas. 



l-UNKK'AI. CEKJiMO^'lES. 113 

Seven 1hiih1i<,'(| McihIhts wi'ie in (ho ranks, wearing" l)lack suits, 
'A lilte vests, wliite gloves and lilaek silk hats; and also Ijliie sashes 
witli hlue rosettes and a star in the centre, IViii'^ed with black crape. 

Tlie Association's handsome banner, of dove colored silk, presented 
"111 one side a jiicture of a shij) under lull sail, and, on the other, of a 
uroup of sci'ewnien at work. Mourning insignia decorated the to]> of 
Ihc banner. 

1lie Officers were : JMilton Sparks, I'resident; 'I'heodule Griffin, 
■ irst Vice President; John Brooks, Becojul Vice President; T. A. 
Williams, Keeording Secretary ; P. Wilson, Financial Secretary; and 
• loseph Kelly, Treasurer. 

Marshal Anthony Clark then appeared, at tlie head of tiie 

Teamsters^ and Loadcrn'' Boievolfnt AnHOCiafioii, of whose Mem- 
bers some six hundred men were in rank. They wore bi ' 
black hats, white vests, ami white gloves, with blue sashes, and ea( ii a 
iiiourning badge. 

Their elegant blue silk banner was draped in l,)lack, as was the 
! 'nited States flag. 

Their Officers were: Thomas Itedmoiid, President; V. Cham- 
pagne, Vice President; Horace Moseby, Treasurer; Robert I)au:i .; 
•Secretary ; and W. C. Flowers, Recording Secretary. 

The Colored M(ji'h Protective Union. — Tliis representative i "I'li-ji] 
i I'dy turned out in very large numbers^ every Ward in the cit , 
a strong delegati())i in line, and presenting at least one thousand men, 
niarching by fours. They wore plain mourning badges, and all were 
neatly dressed. Each Ward delegation bad its owii Hag or jjanner, 
each of which was looped up with sable crape or otherwise placed in 
mourning. 

i'lie President, J. ^ladison Vance, and the Marshal, James John- 
son, did not appear with the Union, being on duty as Aids to Marshal 
Dumont. 

Tlie Officers parading were: J. A. Rockter, Vice President, act- 
ing as President ; (). P. Fernandez, Secretary; L. D. Herbert. Assist- 
ant Secretary ; Oscar Allen, Treasurer ; F. C. Antoine, Manager; and 
Rev. Pierre Landry, Chaplain. 

Of the five hundred members of Branch No. 2 of that strong body : 

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The Cotton Yard Men)>^ Benevoleiit Association, only about tliree hun- 
dred were in the Association's ranks, the others being with other 
organizations — sucli as the "Odd Fellows,"— to which they belonged. 
The Otticers and Menil)ers a))peared in black suits, white vests and 
gloves, and black hats, and each wore the Association's badge, edged 
wltli crape. 

'i'lie Association's l)aiiner and the American flag were enwrapped 
in mourning, and were carried, the former, by .John Malone ; the ban- 
ner, by John H. Thompson. 

The Otticers on duty with the Association were : Major Emsley 
Brewer, President; Whitfield Madison, Vice l^resident; Chas. Dixon 
Bowers, Recording Secretary; T. G. Jefferson, Financial Secretary; 
Wm. James, Treasurer, and Rev. .John Richard, Chaplain. 

The Marshal, R. C. Johnson, had for his Aids, Major Polite and 
Joseph Richard. 

Marshal Daniel McKinzie and his Aid, L. Brown, then led on the 

Longshoremen^ s Protective Union No. 2, of whose Members, four 
hundred marched behind their banner and the American flag, which 
were in mourning. 

The dress of Officers and Members was black suits, white vests 
and gloves, and the Union's badge, in craj^te. 

The Officers parading were : P. S. Jackson, President; J. T. Novel, 
First Vice President; Rafe Robertson, Second Vice President; A. 
Butler, Recording Secretary ; J. A. Henderson, Financial Secretary ; 
Geo. Washington, Treasurer, and Rev. H. A. Ruffing, Chaplain. 

Next in order appeared, under the supervision of their Marshal, 
Jordan Green, the 

Coal Rollers^ Benevolent Association, some two hundred strong, 
with banner and flag furled and draped, and each man with a black 
edged badge on his coat laj^pel. 

Their officers were: Warren County, President; James Johnson, 
Vice President; Joseph Matthias, Secretary, and Jefferson Harrison, 
Treasurer. 

The Division was closed by the 

Sons of Zion Benevolent Association, under their Marshal, Samuel 
Davis, 



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They were seventy-five in numbei', dressed in black suits and 
black hats, with a plain mourning badge on the coat lappel, and their 
banner draped in sable streamers. 

The Officers were: Oscar Ceyney, President; Alfred Randall, 
Vice President; Jas. D. Matthews, Secretary, and Hentlerson Hughes, 
Treasurer. 

The Ninth Division, it will be seen, turned out over three thou- 
sand three hundred men. 

TENTH DIVISION. 

The Marshal of the closing Division of the jn-occssion was the 
Hon. p. B. S. Pinchback, Ex-Lieutenant-drovernor of the State, 
under Gov. Warmoth's administration. 

His Aids were Hon. T. H. Stamps, Kx-Slate Senator; (ieo. D. 
Geddes, and G. G. Canonge. 

The first Society to take up the march-step under their leadership, 
preceded by a fine band of music — were the 

Young and True FrienxVn Benevolent Association, under tiu'ir own 
Marshal, John Reynolds, assisted by Lewis Smith. 

The Members, one hundred in number, wore black suits, white 
gloves, and black hats, with the Association badge and a mourning 
badge. 

There were three handsome flags, also in mourning. 

The Officers parading were : John Lewis, President ; Jerry B. 
Brown, Vice President ; Joseph Fabacther, Jr., Secretary ; George 
Kinzey, Assistant Secretary ; and Geo. M. (.'avell, Financial Secretary. 
The Treasurer, George D. Geddes, was on duty with Marshal Pinch- 
back. 

Next came, led by their Marshal, Frank A. Reeves, and his Aid, 
Wni. Gains, the 

Equal Justice Marine Benevolent Assoclatio)!, with one hundred 
and fifty Members present. They wore black suits, black silk liats, 
white vests and gloves, and the badge of the Association trimmed 
with black crape. 

Their handsome banner was of orange-colored silk, with the device 
of a' pelican feeding her young. Black streamers were attached to the 
top. 



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T)u' OfTicors were: W. 1). Morris, President; <i. ,J. Simon, Viee 
President ; Win. H. Penii, Secretary ; Jos. Huuipiiries, Assistant See- 
ret a r.v ; and ][. A. Staekhouse, Treasurer. 

I'iuler the guidance of their Marshal, Willis Ijarnj)kins, the 

Ij<ni<j!<Ii()irhi<ii'')i {'i)ioii Bciievoleiit AtiKociafiou, with N. H. Kan- 
dall as their President, followed next in line. 

I'here liundred and lifty ^Members marciied after iiim and tlieothei' 
Ollieers ; who were, Thomas Brown, First Vice President; N. Jordan, 
Second Vice President ; Daniel Davis, Treasurer; and James E. Porter, 
Secretary. 

'i'heir dress was black coat and pants, white vest, white gloves, 
and hlai-k hats. The badges were of blue silk with white rosettes, and 
a knot of bhick ribbon. 

The Association's fine blue silk banner, with mourning streamers, 
had on one side a ship under full sail, and on tlie otiier, the dates of 
organization and incorporation. 

This Society was followed by the 

Longahoremen'' )i Protective Asi«Mu'atio)i, with Marshal D. A\'. 
Daniels to the fore. 

The President, Thomas Smith, was accom})anied l)y Win. Whar- 
ton, \'ice President ; Harrison Taylor, Treasurer ; and .lohn Ij. Prown, 
Secretary. 

There were nearly two hundred men in line, dressed, like their fel- 
low-workinginen's societies, in black cloth suits, white vests and 
gloves, and black hats, and the Association badge, trimmed with black. 

Their silk banner was also draped with tiie insignia of mourning. 

Tile next liody in order was tlic 

Ar/ii/r Mntnaf Aid Asfioridtio/i, iiiuh'r tlicir Marshal, l^rnesl 
.h)hns(in. 

Nearly two hundred of the Members were in tlie ranks. 'J'lu'v 
wore black cloth coats and pants, white vests, black cravats and 
gloves, and black round hats. The batlges were of black silk, suitably 
inscriiied, with gold trimmings for Ollieers, and silver for Members. 

The beautiful and costly silk banner of the Association, and sev- 
ei-al silk Hags were profusely drajied in mourning. -The (>t1it-ers were: 



EUJSiEKAr. ("KREMONIKS. 117 

.)iilf.s Ai-ir.aiid, I'lvsidoiit ; N'iiu-c'iit L'Honisst', First Vice I'resi- 
(itiit; Louis J. Decoudrinux, Srcoiid \'ice i'ri'sidi'iit ; Mcrtil H. Croc- 
ker. .Seci-flary ; Jules Serre, Assistant Secretary; Jos. Marcos Tio, 
Treasurer: Placide Decou and Aristi<le Adams, First and Second Coiu- 
luissary. 

The Division was closed by the 

nilUd Soioi of I A (pit, a benevolent Association, headed by tlicir 
• ' - , Wni. Hall, and his Aids, John Dennis, Jleiiry Curtis, John 
.Jacksi.'H, and Kdward Cobb. 

They ])araded with one hundred and twenty-tive Mendjers, dre.ssed. 
elv, with black silk hats, white vests and gloves, and wearino- 
c scarfs and badges. These and their purple silk banner were 
il.aped in mourning. 

iHcers were : David Douglas, President ; Tsnah S. Johnson, 
\ ici, iiCRident; Alexander Jackson, Secretary; and Matthew (Greene, 
i reasurer. 

The Tenth and last Division mustered 'over eleven hundred men. 

NOTES. 

'J'lie PROCESSI )N was more than three miles long ; and as nece.s- 

sarily, it n: r. . i slowly, it was neai ly three hours on the marcli. In the 

' were sixteen thousand men; and there were at least 

1 spectators to see it go by. The doorways, windows 

all the houses were occupied, and the .sidewa'ks and 

ked as closely as could be with the patient lookers-on. 

liie slig iioance anywiiere among tliat great 

r-ry one: ■.sorbed in the solemn reflecrions that 

.■^pageaii y suggested. ■ The only sounds heard 

-, liie occasional boom of a cannon, and 

I .■■ ' , , lie l>ands. 

was to have nmuiHred in its ranks a deles^a- 
\. Uie i^ev. jJr. Witherspotiii, and represent ing the Otti- 

« I s olthe ibreign and domestic shipping in port. Nearly 

a huiiured of them a.-.^embled at the Upper Bethel in the morning and 
i< < Ml the services there, to wliich allusion has already been 

11.^ - I tiiiavoidaule delay then occarred, wliicli did not prevent 



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tluiii troin iiKircliiiia- down to Canal street, with the Pastor conducting 
llu'in. I)iit tliey arrived at tlie rendezvous too late to join in the Proces- 
sion. They waited, however, and listened to the orations subsequently 
delivered. 

A prominent object of attention on St. Charles street, was the tall 
iintinislied sliat't of the Lee Monument, in the middle of Tivoli Circle, 
a sliort distance above tiie Washington Artillery Armory. It rears its 
wlilte marble column from the centre of a high mound ; and, standing 
lioldly out against the sky, is seen from a long distance oft'. It was 
now made more cons^jicuous by the bands of .sable drapery that 
enwraj)j>ed it from cap to base, and by the national ensign that, attached 
to a liglit wooden frame-work rising still higher in the air, hung in 
folds, tied uj) in crai)e. It was a graceful tribute to the memory of the 
dead President, — a distinguished Republican leader and Federal Gen- 
eral — from a body of prominent citizens, every man of whom had 
/.ealously served the Lost Cause. 

AT THE WASHINGTON AJITILLERY ARMORY. 

Tills massive three-story edifice,— located on (St. Charles street, 
between Girod and Julia, — was widely known in previous years as the 
Exposition Jiuilding. In purchasing it for an arsenal, the Washing- 
ton Artillery Battalion had made no change in its main Hall, 
(in llie second tloor, which was originally constructed for ball and con- 
cert purposes. It is one of the largest halls of the kind in the country,— 
cai)able of easily accommodating three thousand persons on the lioor. 
it is so skillfully planned and its proportions are so harmonious that 
its great lengtli, width and height do not oppress the eye, which be- 
sides, is gratified by the abundance of soft light through the numerous 
windows in double rows, by the delicacy of the blended coloring, and 
the chaste designs of the ornamentation. Its spacious dimensions 
and airy elegance are familiar to tens of thousands of visitors from all 
parts of the country, who have participated in the numerous brilliant 
eiitertaiiunents given within its hospitable portals. 

On "Memorial Monday," however, its aspect was entirely 
changed. The City Council Committee, of which Administrator 
Walshe was the Chairman, had planned funeral decorations that were 



FUNERAL CEREMONIES. 1 1 1* 



rapidh'- carried into effect by skillful and \villiii.i>- hands; and the result 
was a grand tableau of a singularly sombre character, tiiat nevertheless 
did not overload or hide entirely from view the simple lieauty and 
grand ijroportions of the Hall itself. 

The wide double stairways, that wound u|» from the entrance vesti- 
l)ule on St. Charles street to that on the second (loor, were decorated 
along the sides and walls with broad bands of black crape. Similar 
bands, in strips, hung down the walls of this upper vestibule, the 
many windows and balconies of which were lilled with guests, wat(;h- 
ing the Procession as it moved by, on its way to Canal street, to be 
dismissed. The wide doors giving entrance from tiie vestibule into 
the Hall were faced with black. 

Within the Hall, the tall, square pillars, — ranging on either side 
from the doors to the distant rear, — were wrapped in sable cloth. At 
about eight feet from the floor, on each pillar, was fastened a group 
composed of a shield in the centre, crossed flags pointing out on its 
right and left, and wreaths of cedar above and below. 

The lower cornice, just above the pillars, was covered with a wide 
black band, all around the Hall ; and from this cornice fell, from a 
central point between each rwo pillars, heavy folds of black cloth, 
swaying across the pillars, and looped up to the cornice with large 
black and white rosettes. 

Bands of black cloth were also stretched across the Hall, from the 
corners^and sides : starting from the cornice and meeting in the centre, 
under the sun-light, where they supported an outstretched United 
States flag. 

In the rear, a wide and deep platform had been erected, for the use 
of the Officers of the meeting, the Clergy, Speakers, and some of the 
invited guests. A railing ran around it, and the whole was shrouded 
in black, with wreaths of evergreen and black and white rosettes here 
and there on the cloth- Back of the platform, the wall was covered 
with black; and upon this dark background appeared a large portrait 
of the dead President, beneath which was a shield containing thecoat- 
of-arms of the United States. Both iiortrait and shield were festooned 
in crape. 

The iron-balustraded gallery high above the platform, designed for 
musicians, was also covered with black ; and from the centre was sus- 



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|icihU'(1 ;iii rscutclicon, coDlaiiiiiiii; the coat-of-ariris of the State of 
Louisiana. On cither side of tliis shield projected a tta*?, looped up half 
way with hlaek crape. 

Ijouj; l)efore the hour at wiiicli the ('at:ifaU)Uc arrived in front of 
tlu' Armory, the rows upon rows of chairs that tilled the floor hegan to 
he occujiied, chielly hy ladies. Many old, well-known citizens also 
came in (juietly at this time, of wdiom were several who had ajipeared 
as ofticers in the ,<;rand funeral i)a,<;eniit of December, 18-')2, to whicli 
allusion has been made in the Preface. 

As, for example, Gen. John L. [jewis, Ex-Mayor and Ex-Sheriff, 
and for a lont;- series of years in tlie past ot!ierwis(^ prominent in tlu 
State and city's public affairs, and always esteemed and respected. His 
form is erect, his step firm, his voice clear, his eye bright and his 
mind active ; and it was ditlicult to realize that th's vigorous and intel- 
ligent old gentleman was verging on to eighty years. Tliere was also 
tiie veteran merchant, Moses Greenwood, over fifty years ago the 
pioneer of the commercial intercourse between New Orleans and the 
Territory of Arkansas, and still, with dignified niein and erect form, 
an active member of the Chamber of Commerce. — Also, influential and 
widely known l)usiness men — as, Messrs. E. .J. Hart, James I. Day, 
H. A. LeSassier, A. J. Gomilla, Carl Kohn, E. L. Carriere, Jules 
Cassard, U. Marinoni, H. Peychaud, J. Tuyes, Jno. T. Hardie, Paul 
Fourchy, aiul Albert Baldwin — who had not opportunity to aj>])ear in 
the j)r()cession, but were prompt to respond to the City's invitation to 
Join in the ceremonies in the Hall. 

Administrator Walshc, as Chairman of the Council Committee, w'as 
early at the Hall, and in his usual ((uiet manner, diligently superintend- 
ing the details of the reception and thesuV)sequent ceremonies, in which 
he was energetically assisted, as soon astliey arrived, by his colleagues 
on the Committee, Administrators Fagan and Dekuuiu'e. 

The following gentlemen, selected by Mayor Shakspeare and the 
('ity Council Committee, acted as tlie 

COMMITTEE OK KE< EI'TION. 

Chairman : Alex. E. McConnell, the Mayor's Private Secretary. 
Messrs. Al. Donnaud, Theodore D. Wharton, and Omer H. Bart- 
lette, of the New Orleans Times' stafJ";— C. H. Parker, R. V>. Matthews, 



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iiinl J. A.(iiiiiiten), of the Ni'W OrU'ans I'irayuiic ; — Richard (J. Weight- 
iiiaii aiul John K. Hariiiger, ol' 1 lie New Orleans Deinot-rat ;— A. C'ap- 
<leville and F. K. Smith, of tlic New Orleans JJee;— John Weichart, of 
the Oernuin Gn/ette ; — K. Craighead and Henry Armstrong, of the 
l*]vening- States ;— Henry INTichel, of the City Item;— Kev. Mr. Cuma- 
ceiro, of the .rewish So'ith ; -li. .1. Hri.tzht, of th(> N(>wOrleans Price 
( 'nrrent. 

Also: Messrs. K. L. Bower, ('hit>f Clerk <>f the Mayoralty; M. 
.McNamara, Secretary of tlie City Council; 1). M. Hrosnan, the ('ity 
Surveyor; Major John \V. I'airfax; \V. U. Roylan, K. Houli^iiy, 
U. H. Bartiey, (i. Hernoudy, Reniy Clarke, I'. S. Camphell, E. A. 
J)ucros, John J. Fitzpatrick, K. M. Fox, (ieo. W. Flynn, W. M. Gur- 
ley, H. Guillotte, A. l*. Harrison. F .1. Hyatt, Theodore James, A. 
.jardet, H. Johnson, .lohn A- Kiihuer, F. S. Kendig, P, J, Krammer, 
W. H. Michel, I). E. M(rCartliy, N. H Phelps, Thos. Reynolds, M. 
Redon, C. A. Shields, C. Stein, JB- C. Shields, C. I). Stewart, T. G. 
rihorn, L). F. Walsh, P. S. Wilt/, and J. A. Villarui.ia. 

The gentlemen whose names appear after that ol' Major Fairfax, 
an; all clerks connected with the difl'erenl Departments in the City 
Hall. 

As soon as the Procession l)egan its march down St. Charles street, 
for dismissal at Canal, the Reckption Committee had their hands 
full in ushering to their seats the hundreds upon hundreds of persons 
who now api^eared in the Hall. Despite the crowd anci movement, 
there was no more noise than usually atteiuls the seating of a church 
cf)iigregation. 

Presently, Mayor Shakspeare and Lieutoumt Governor McEnery 
entered the Hall, followed by the Clergy, the Orator, the Consuls, and 
the citizens who had been selected by the City Council Committee to 
act as Vice Presidents. Then apjieared the various delegations of War 
Veterans, the other State, Parish and City Officials, and the other 
Invited Guests generally. They moved slowly up the central aisle to 
their positions on and near the platform while the general public 
rapidly filled the multiple rows of chairs. 

When all were seated, the front of the platform was seen to be 
occupied by the Mayor, in the centre, with the Lieutenant Governor 
on his left, and the Orator on his right. 



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122 HIHTORV OF THK 



On tlu- loCt of thf Lieutenant CTOvernor sat Secretary of .State, 
Stroiii;-, Auditor Jtnuel, 'I'reasiirer Burlce, and Judges Tociie and 
Lazarus. 

On the rij-lit of liie (tiafor were tin- Clergy, and next to tlieui tlie 
Consuls. In the rows of chairs further hack sat the Vice Presidents. 

The chairs on the right of the i)latforui, frontiug it, were occupied 
by the Veterans of 181 2-1 5, the Mexican War Veterans, the Veterans 
oT the Army oi' Virginia, tixKse of the Army of Tennessee, the 
(Jcrnian Union Veterans, and the Grand Army of the Republic. 

In the chairs on the left of the platform, and fronting it, sat the 
Speaker of the House, the Hon. K. N. Ogden ; Senator Edwin Harris ; 
Ceneral Owen and General Duiire ; State linniigration Commissioner 
W. H. Harris; Ex-Chief Justice Marr ; Judges Voorhiesand Holmes; 
Representatives Aitken and Frautz ; Doctors Davidson and Holliday ; 
J'olice Commissioner Byrne; Doctors Forniento and Jos. C Beard and 
E. Hernandez ; City School Directors Collins and Stringerand Secretary 
O'Brien; Civil Slieriff Dully's Deputies and Clerks ; and tlie Federal 
Officials. 

liumediati'ly ii\ front of the j)latform was a table for the lve])orters 
of the Press; and near them, occupying several rows of chairs specially 
reserved for them, were the Ofticers of the New Orleans Liedek- 
TArEJj (already named in the report of the Third Division), with the 
additional Memljers of that Society, who were to execute the selections 
of vocal music. 

On the right ol the Singers, conspicuous by their unift)rms, sat 
several OHicers of tlie Fire Department, — jn'ominent among them the 
tall and portly (.'hief, Thos. O'Connor. 

Wiien all were seated, Administrator Walshe, at the entrance 
doors, gave notice to a group who were waiting in the vestibule. Then, 
whilst solemn silence reigned in the assembly, there slowly entered the 
Hall and moved up the central aisle, the Masonic Pall-Bearers, carry- 
ing between them the Coflfiu, covered with fresh gathered flowers and 
evergreen wreaths, and decorated with the lioral cross, shield and 
anchor. 'J'hey were escorted by the Governor's Military Statl' Officers, 
already mentioned. 

The (Joffin was placed in front of the rostrum that was in the 
centre of the platform; the Pall-Bearers and the Staff Officers took 



FUNERAL CEREMONIES. IL';. 

seats near by ; and tlie cereinoiiies heiiau liy a line ( )i'<-licstra, placed in 
the gallery over tlie platforiTi, peiibrmiii.u' in exceUeiit style, under 
Prof. Sporer's leaders!ii|), Rossini's grand '^ Sfahal Mutf r.'" 

Mayor JosKrii A. Shaksi'kar:; tlien rose; and, standing at tlie 
rostrum, spoke as follows, in elear, distinct vM)iee, and in a very earnest 
manner, — showing liow deep an interest lie fell in the solemn cere- 
monial and the event that gave rise to it. 

" Ladiks and Gp:ntt.ea[KiV : We have assemhled this evening to 
" express our sorrow for tlie calamity that lias befaUcn our (-oantry in 
" the melancholy death of our President, and our sympatiiy for the 
" bereaved widow and children. The City Administration felt that it 
" was due to their fellow-citizens, representing tiie third largest commer- 
" cial city in the country, to let the world know that, whatever 
" and hower intense our party differences, they had been wisely for- 
" gotten, and that all were united in resj)ect for, and contidence in our 
" President. We are united, too, in our grief for his loss. The public; 
" demonstration of to-day, however remarkable, lias moi'e than a local 
" significance. The whole land is in grief. It is an outpouring of the 
" nation's heart. Everywhere to-day the people are paying a sincere 
" tribute to the menaory of the President. It is a just tribute. During 
" the brief period in which he tilled his liigh office, he had secured 
" the people's confidence; he had endeared himself to their hearts. It 
" is fit and meet that we should join with our countrymen throughout 
" the length and breadth of the land, in thus i^ublicly giving exjjres- 
" sion to our sorrow." 

The Mayor then introduced tlie Lieutenant Governor of the State 
as the Prksident of the Meetino. 

LIEUT. GOVERNOR JVI'ENERV 

arose; slowly advanced to the rostrum and said, in a (juiet, dignified 

manner, and low, clear voit^e, — every word spoken deliberately and 

impressively : 

"Ladip:s and Gentlemen: I return thanks for the honor of 
" the compliment extended me. It is unnecessary for me to explain 
" at length the object of this meeting, any more than it would be 
" for me to go down into the popular heart and account for the 
'' great length and breadth of the jiopular outpouring of to-day. We 
•' have paid to-day the last tribute of respect to the President of the 
" United States. We have properly honored his Jiigh official posi- 
" tion. But he is now stripped of all his power. He has no more 
" patronage to bestow. He is placed beyond the reach of adulation. 
" And now, after having rendered this honor to the great office he 
" held, and which was vacated in so sad a manner, it is fit we should 
" be here this evening to hear something of his private virtues from 
" eloquent lips." 

The Lieutenant-Governor resumed his seat ; and W, J. McC'all, 



IL'4 HISTORY OF THE 

Si'crctary of llic '' ( iciuTal ( 'oiiiniitteeof Arranj^eiiieiits " and also of ihi^ 
"City ( 'oiiiicil's ( 'oiuiiiittec, " caiue forwani and read I lie following; list 
or 

\'l('K i^KESlDKNl'S; 

Mon. Jost'i'li A. Sluikspeare, 
Hon-li. T. Walshe, Hon. W. K. Pluger, 

Hon. John Fitzijatrick, Hon. P. Mealey, 

Hon. (Jeo. l>«dainor(', Hon. J. \'. (Uiillotte. 

And, as JU'jiresentatives of States and 'I'crritories : 
Hon. Roi)i'rtMcMillen, Alabama ; Hon. Moses Greenwood, Arkan- 
sas; Col. James Lingan, California; H. H. Seward, Colorado; W. K. 
Se.vmour, Connecticiil ; J.J.Mellon, Delaware; Pai?e M. Baker, Flori- 
da; Josej)!) H. Of»elsby, Illinois; Joseph A Hinckle, Indiana; Cren. 
Cynis Hiissey, Iowa; Wright SchaumldirK, Kansas ; Gen. John Ij. 
Lewis, Keiitncky; (ien. Fred N. ()ti:den, Louisiana; Ex-Mayor Ed. Pills- 
bury. Maine; J. (.". C'lark, Marylanfl ; S. 1). Moody, Massachusetts; 
E. C. Vlllere, Michigan; E. Howard McCaleb, Mississippi; Eugene 
Krost, Minnesota; J Ad. tiozier, Missouri; A. K. MoConnell, Ne- 
braska; Jjouis Schwartz, Nevada; ('.('.Tracy, New Hampshire ; W. 
(i. Wheeler, New Jersey; Jas. I. Day, New York ; Rev, A. M. Green, 
Ohio; Steven I). Pool, Xorth Carolina; P. Maspero, Oregon ; B. 1). 
Wood, Pennsylvania; (ieo. H. Kayerweather, Rhode Island; Jno. H 
Latitte, South Carolina; Harry Allen, Tennessee ; Col. Jack Wharton, 
Texas; ,J.<^. A. Fellows, Vermont; Col. R. H.Pleasants, Virginia; 
Henry Peychaud, West \'irginia ; S. Oteri, Wisconsin ; John Dorhmer, 
Arizona Territory; H. C. Castellanos, Dakota Territory ; Ben Onorato, 
Idaho Territory ; F. (!. Wharton, Indian Territory ; J)an Owens, Mon- 
tana 'I'erritory ; Jos. H. l)e Grange, New Mexico Territory; John C'. 
Hach, Ftah Territory; F. Fisher, Washington Territory; R. Frots- 
clier, Wyoming Territory ; Horace F. Phillips, District of (Columbia. 

The President then announced a Prayer by the Rev. Dr. B. M. 
I'ai,.mi:k, of the Presliylerian Ministry. All heads were bowed whilst 
that el<i(|uent Divine delivert>d tlie following 

I'Hn-sKR ; 

" Alniigiily (iodi We adore Thee as the King eternal, immortal, 
" invisible, the only wise CJod,— the Father of ligiits, from whom 
" (-(jincth ilown every good and perfect gift; with whom is no varia- 



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" blenes.s, iieitlier shadow of turning;',— the Kiiij? of Kiii^s and Ijord of 
" Lords, wlio is over all, (Jod, blessed forever! Thou dwellest in li>j;ht 
" which no man can apjjroach unto. Before the .s>:lory of Thy majesty 
"the angels veil themselves, while they cry ' Holy*! holy! holy! is 
" the Lord of hosts, the whole eartii i:^ full of his glory ! ' ' 

"It hath pleased Tiiee to lay thy chastening hai'id ui)on this our 
" nation ; and from thy throne Thou lookest down upon a whole 
" peojile henchng before Thee under the bui'den of a |»ublic sorrow. 
'• We dare not ask the reason of this great bereavenuiut, for Thou 
" doest according to Thy will in the army of Heaven and among the 
" inhabitants of the earth, and none can" stay Thy hand, or say Unto 
"Thee: ' NVhat doest Thou ?' l^ut, though cloud's and darkness are 
" round aboutThee, we rejoice that Justice and Judgment are the hab- 
" itations of Thy throne, while Mercy and Truth go before Thy (ace. 
" Sanctify this disci])line of Thy Providence to us, as, over all tliis 
" land, we hend in humility and i)rayer before Thee this day. (Jive 
" us grace to discover Thy hand in Die sorrow wiiich (clothes a nation 
" in mourning; for ' Shall the trumj)et l)e blown in the city, and the 
" people not he afraid ? Shall there be evil in the city anci the iiord 
" hath not done it ?' 

"Help us in the sinc^erity of true peJiitence to bewail and confess 
" before Thee our })rivateand our public sins, which have drawn uj)on 
" us this severe chastisement; and when Tiiy ju<lgments are in the 
" earth, may the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness. 

"Take under Thy care the interests of tii is great people; and as 
" they gather around the grave which to-day is common to them all, 
" may the pathos of a common grief (tause all their hearts to tk)w 
" together in the union of a stronger and a broader aflection ! (Jive 
"peace and prosperity throughout all our borders; crown our land 
" with plenty ; and teach us by the largeness of Thy mercies, ' how 
" happy is that people whose (lod is the Lord.' 

" We invoke Thy special blessing upon that house which Thou 
" hast shattered M^tli a single blow! Bring the consolations of 'J'hy 
" grace to her whom Thou hast called to sit in the loneliness of unex- 
" pected widowhood ! With Thine own hand wipe the tears from her 
" eyes, and give her beauty for ashes: the oil of joy for mourning, and 
" the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness." Reveal to her faith 
" the depths of that promise : ' Leave thy fatherless children ! 1 will 
"preserve them alive, and let thy widows trust in me !'— Spare the 
" little ones of the Mock, that they may grow up at her side and be the 
"support and stay of her declining years! — Uphold and comfort the 
" venerable mother whose strong staff is broken beneath her at the 
" very edge of her own life; and may the joys of a brighter world 
" burst upon her sight as the light of Earth goes out to her in the dark- 
" ness of this bereavement ! 

" Hear this our prayer, ' () Thou that dwellest in the Heavens, 
" and in Thy faithfulness answer us, aJid in Thy righteousness.' And 
" to Thy great name we ascribe honor and praise, and glory, and niaj- 
" esty, and dominion andjwwer, tiow and forever: Amkn !" 

A fervent "Amen !" responded from the midtitudinous assembly 
to the fervent appeal of the Preacher ; and no eye was ashamed to 
show the moisture elicited by the pathetic allusions to the bereaved 
ones. 



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I'lu' AIcMilicrs of file Li ddertafkl then gathered on the platform, 
ami nil. Id- the leadorsliip oC Prof. Carl. Weiss, with organ aceompani- 
mriil li\- i'l-ol'. .). H. EeUtTt, sang in tlieir own delicate and artistic 
slylr .McmlrlsslKiirs tender and beautiful Pahtin<j Hymn, l)eginning: 

" It is ordaineci by God alxjve 

" Tliat we must part from those we love." 

The Singers, fifty in number, included the OfTicers previously 
named in tlie Tliird Division, and Messrs. F. 1). Becker, B. Bruenn, 
F. \V. Bremer, F. Busch, L, Calm, R. Christ, G. W. Doll, H. Deiler, 
Win. Debus, \i. Einstein, J. Firmenich. Alfred Goldstein, Gust. Gold- 
man, A. .1. Helmke, A. J. HofTman, S, Honigmann, Jul. Heintz, Th. 
L. Helm, F. Jahnke, G. Yongnell, Jos. Joachim, Quit. Kohnke, J. 
Krel)S, K. Lorenzen, Dr. C- Ludwig, Edward J. Ltidwig, Chas. Lud- 
wig. Dr. Ijangenberker, H. Marx, J. C. May, Dr. Mainegra, A. Nolte, 
E. Pragst, .Ir.; Albert Rosenmeyer, C. Schaible, M. W. Salomon, A. 
Stein, M. \'onderl)anck, G. Vieth, A. Vosswinkel, P. Wunder, H. 
Wolter, ('. Winkelmann, Chr. Wachenfeld, Gust. Walde, and P". F. 
Wienhuseii. 

'i'lie Ri:\' 1)H. J. F. GiRAiiLT was then annonnced to read a Selec- 
tion from Holy Scriptures. He read from '• Joel," Second Chapter, 
beginning at Verse 11 : 

" And the Lord shall utter his voice before his army ; for his camp 
" is very great ; for he is strong that executeth his word; for the day 
" of the Lord is great and very terrible; and wlio can abide it? " 

It is not out of place here to mention that Rev. Dr. Girault, of the 
Episcopal Ministry, is also a veteran of the Mexican War and of the 
Confederate Stall". 

The OrchesLi-a, under Prof. Sp<n-er, then executed a funeral dirge. 
After which i'resiileni MeEnery introduced the Chairman of the Com- 
mittee on llesolutions, Mr. .\. H. May, who, in deliberate, impressive 
manner, read the following 

KKSOliTTIONS : 

The C;itizens of New Orlearis, assembled this day without regard to 
ereed, l)arty or race, and desiring to give some expression, however 
iiKide(|nate, to their feelings, iu view of the bereavement which has 
been visited upon the American j)eople, do, hereby resolve: 

1. That in concert with our fellow-citizens thronghout our com- 
iiioii country, who have met to mourn upon this day of national grief, 



FUNEKAL CKKEMONIES. 



wi- fwl again (he horror which lliriiled us w iieii wt- were (irsl stir- 
j)riHiHl and s'locked hy tlit' atU'iii[)t uj)oii Uw. lilV of Pri'sidcnt (Jarrteld. 
We hoped and prayed tlien that- his life miiilit lie spared. Tliat hojie 
has heen disai)pointe(l. We how in renewed and (U'cpened sorrow 
l)efore the eahiiuity of his deatli, and we cannot hiil feel humiliated at 
the thought that our country conld have produced tlie assassin. 

2. That our sense of grief is tlie more piofound wdu'u we considm- 
tlie history and character of the I'resident we luive lost. His hiography 
illustrates some of the best and most hojieful featuicsof life in tlie New- 
World. Bom in obscurity and well nigh in want, he came, through 
self-denial, through cheerful toil, throngli mardy courage, to be scholar, 
leader of men, first citizen of the liepublic. Strong in l)ody, strong in 
)nind, his force was tempered by a noble amiabiliiy. 

We can truly .say of liim as he said of a i)redeccssoi- : 

" He was one of tlie few great rulers wljose wisdom incrr.-iscd wilii 
his power, and whose .si)irit grew gentler and tenderer as liis triumi>lis 
were multiplied." 

He loved the whole land ; he to')k an enlightened view of all its 
sections and all its needs; and we lament his death as that ol a patriot, 
a statesman and a friend. 

8. That we respectfully otter to the altlicted f;Minly of the tleceased 
President our profoundest sympathy with their exceptional sorrow. 
We recognize the utter weakness of any words to fitly express such 
condolence, and the utter inability of any human condolence to alle- 
viate such grief. But, poor as it must be,\ve offer it with all sincerity ; 
and we doul)t not that this stricken family (jf mounuTs, nurtured as 
they iu'vve been in all that is most noble and virtuous, in their typical 
American home, will not fail to find a higher consolation in Hin\ who 
is the Father of the fatherless and the widow's (lod. 

4. That among the special and obvious lessons of this cruel calam- 
ity is one which has already been pointed out l>y pul)licists and the 
press throughout the entire country and in other parts of the world; 
and this lesson is: that the President of the Knifed Btatesshould neither 
be worn out by the importunities nor exposed to the reckless resent- 
nieut of disappointed otfice-seekers ; but that the duty rests upon the 
Representatives of the people, as matter of lu'gency, lo see to it that 
the civil service of the United States be placed on a sounder, a more 
rational and a more business-like basis. ^Ve hold that, in the words of 
James A. Gariield, " to reform this service is one of the highest and 
most imperative duties of statesmanship.'' 

5. That, while we thus sorrow, we do not sorrow without hoi)e for 
our country. The late President, on a former day of darkness, declared 
in memorable words that ''God still reigns and the (Jovernment still 
lives." 

We recall this truth with an increased sense of its sign itica nee to- 
day. 

W\^ believe in the perpetuity and progress of this (Government of 
the people ; with a faith which, we trust, no misfortune can sliake, and 
which surely no act of crime, such as we now deplore, can in anywise 
imijair. 

6. That we recognize, with feelings of heartfelt gratitude, the 
expressions of sympathy, in this national affliction, which have come 
from other nations, both of the Old World and the New; and especi- 
ally from Her Majesty, the Q,ueen o England ; — and we tind in such 

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IL'S IIISTOKV OF THE 



t'.\])ri'ssi<»ns not lueroly ti proof of an aniit'al)le interest in our present 
and future, l)ut also the harhinyer of a surer tViendslii[) and federation 
anioni;- the nations of tiie earth. 

7. Tluit a copy of these resohitions he sent to the Secretary of State 
of the United States for such disposition as he may deem appropriate. 

Ax a mattt'r of form, President IMcKnery put the Jiesohitions to 
the vote; and of course they were adoi>ted uiumimously. 

Anotiu-r excellent })erforniance hy the Orchestra was followed hy 
the Jieadinirof i^oly Scripture hy the UK^'. Dk. John Matthkw.s, of 
liie .Methodist .Ministry. He chose the Ninetieth Psalm: 

'• liord, thou liast been oui' dwellint; place in all fjeneratious; 

" Before the uiountains were hrou]t>!it forth, or ever thou hadst 
" formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, 
" thou art (Jod." 

The delivery of Rev. Dr. Matthews is always markedly delilter- 

ale and cuiphatic. It was now more tlian usuaHy earnest and solemn ; 

and his listeners were made to feel with him the everlasting truth of 

tlie i'salniist's melancholy words : 

" For all our days are i)assed away in tliy wrath : we speiul our 
" years as a tale that is told." 

THK HON. CHARLES K. BUCK. 

was llieii introduced to the audience hy the Presiding Otlicer as the 
Orator of the Day. 

Mr. J5uck, in clear, flexible, and pleasing voice, and emi)hatic, ini- 
pressive nuuiner, then delivered the following 

.XDDRESS : 
.\nu(>nucing his sul>ject to he: 

ON THE LIKE AND DEATH OF .lAAfES ABRAM GARFIELD. PRESIDENT 
OF THE UNITED ST.VTES, ASSASSINATED JULY 2, 1881. 

It was one of nature's holidays. Calm and peaceful, resplend- 
ently brilliant ro.se the the bright "monarch of day" on the 2d of 
.July, issl. over a happy and peaceful country. There had been no 
"ominous tidings of mishap," no " lamentings heard in the air," nor 
prophesying with accents terrible 

"Of dire coinl)ustion and i-onfused events."' 

Fifty millions of peo])le went, rejoicing, to pursue their usual avoca- 
tions. They coni[)ose the greatest nation known in the history of 
human development. They are a nation of rulers — of sovereign 
ecjuals, governed only by the laws of their own making. From time 
time they choose a wortiiy citizen of their number, who must put the 
laws in operation and see them executed. He represents the executive 
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:il)(>vf all mortals. Vhv si-eptre swavfd liy tlic ciiaiict' of iiilK'ritaiu-e 
is a tinseled notliinj;- — not worth (he l)irtli-rij^ht of the huiuhlest 
Aiuerieaii eiti/A'ii. 'I'heii, how imich j^reater than all is he, the cho- 
sen sovereiji'ii of a nation of sovereiirns! 

In the course of the apiiointed time such an one had just heen 
siujL^^led out. 'Phcre had hei'ii a tierce contest of opixisin^ claimants, 
embittered hy memories of the past, ditlerences of tlie |» resent, fears 
and misgivinj^^s for the future. But the will of the majority is the 
choice of all, ami the successful candidateofa party Itecomes I'resident 
of the peo])le. .lames Abram (iartield, — who now lies still in death, — of 
the State of Ohio, candidate of the Ileiiublican party. re<'eived a major- 
ity of all the votes cast for President of the tjiiited State.*; in the Elec- 
toral ("oUeg-e, and on the Ith oi'^rarch, ISSl.was installed in theduties 
of his hisli office. 

The ^rim asperities of conllict iiad already smoothed their 
"wrinkled front." The new I'residenl himself had said : " I f there 
»'ver was a peojile on this earth who had reason to l)e tired and weary 
to the bone and heart of jtolitical contention, the bitterness of i)arty 
malice, and all the evils that can be sutiered from partisanship, it i.s 
this attlicted A mericJin people." And the people were tiredof it all, 
" to the bone and heart." The repose and «iuiet which followed the 
contest were the verdict of universal accpiiescence. The chasm which 
divided the people was ra{)idly closing?, makin.i,^ a smooth and com- 
mon level for all to stand on. 

The soul of tlie chief elect was full of tlu' i;randeur of this consum- 
mation. In his inaugural address he predicts that it will surely come. 
He appeals to the peo[>le with the tloquence of tender entreaty: 
" Why should it not be now?" Let me recall what he says in this 
connection, right here : 

" As countrymen, we do not differ in our judgment eoncernhig 
the controversies of past generations, and fifty years hence our children 
will not be divided in their opinions concerning our controversies. 
They will surely liless their fathers and their fathers' Uod that the 
Union was preserved, that slavery was overthrown, and that both races 
were jnade equal before the law. " We may hasten or we may retard, 
but we cannot prevent final reconciliation. Is it not possible for us 
now to make a truce with time by anticipating and accepting its inevi- 
table verdict? Enterprises of highest im[)ortance to our moral and 
material well-being invite us and otter am iilescoi)e for the employment 
of our best powers.' Let all our people, leaving behind them the bat- 
tlefields of dead issues, move forward, and in the strength of liberty 
and restored union, win the grander victories of peace." 

Noble words! inspiration of the spirit of peace which hovers 
over the mounds where molder the bones of slain freemen !— They 
went straight to the heart of the people, because the people were ready 
for the day " of honorable reconciliation and peace." And the people 
throughout the land were happy and contented. They accepted the 
inauguration of Mr. Garfield as the completion of the civil revolution 
which followed upon the revolution of arms, and as the commencement 
of the era of perfect pacification. The President had proclaimed himself 
the apostle of this new Union, and all honored him for it, and all 
trusted him. 

No, not all.— History is tragedy ; the characters, peoples ;— the 
motive power of the action, the spirits of good and evil, out of the con- 
flict of which the fate of the actors evolves itself. An infatuation born 



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of the spirits of evil wiiich (icstroy hut hiiihl not up, possesses the 
hriiiii and faeiiilyof a I)ein.u' of tlesli and hlood like ourselves, with feet 
to walk ui)(>n erect in the iinat-e of (iod — it sounds like lilaspheniy to 
say so — and arms and hands to do his wicked will : an infatuation to 
l;il! the President of the United States in times of ))erfeet j)eaee. He 
follows tiie doomed man, like his destiny. He is diabolical, cold and re- 
Iriith'ss as fate. He sees his victim in the jx'ace of his home where he is 
liaiijiy, makinu' others hap])y ; the sii;ht of it, for the )nonient turns him 
Irom his purpose. Sophistry of the fiend ! He is toying with his 
prey. He rela.xes not his terrihle desitj:n ; heonly defers its e.xecution. 
I le sees the doomed man at his devf)tions in the liouse of (Jod, and 
thinks he will do it then. But no, the hour has not yet come. The 
(lark shadow of destiny lurked hut struck not ; hut it never wavered in 
its purpose. The day came. It was decreed in Heaven. The mortal 
pari of James A. (Jartield was doomed to martyrdom and death. 

Two acts in the triology of the nation's trials have l)een concluded. 
The lirst, the conflict of hlood, ended with the death of Abraham 
I,iiii-oln. The si'i-ond, the strife of tlie passions, closed (ui the inaug- 
guration of (Jarfielil. The third, the e.vpiation, i)^gins with the .sacri- 
tice of the apostle of peace, whose soul had become the incarnation of 
Hie sjdrit of a better future. " Thestars had said it." Twice theangels 
of mercy j)alsied the murderous hand; twi<-e the conscious power 
of innocent and noble manhood awed the coward from his aim. But 
il was not to l)e. .\ third time the spirits of evil move their wretched 
instrument to his dark design. The victim is wholly unconscious of 
the shadow at his side. His soul is elated with the joy of supreme 
hap])iness. He has rendered well the first duties of his high call. The 
seeds of a harvest of peace and plenty had been sown. Garfield felt 
liin)self the Chief iMagistrate of a hapi)y and united people. He sur- 
veys his work and sees that it isgood, and he rejoices in it. He seeks 
respite from his labors — the father and the husband claim their natural 
due. He is on his way from the halls of power to enjoy his peace in 
Hie shrine of domestic love. At that fatal railway station, the cares of 
government behind him, the consciousness of duty well done with 
him, the prospect of naught but what is good and beautiful before him, 
the President of the United States had reached the height of human 
hai)ijiness and glory. 

Alas ! 

" Tlie <ro(ls oit Krudiie wliat they have given ; 
And ne'er unnii.xed with grief has lieaven 
Ft.s Joys on mortals shed, " 

In the moment of thissupreuie consummation of the toils of a life, 
tlie dark shadow of evil at his side became the avenging Nemesis of 
l\it<', jealous of the happiness of nian. The " nnexpected " happened. 
Out of the clear sky of that bright and peaceful second of July fell the 
thunderbolt. The a.ssassin-instrument fulfilled his awful mission. 

By noon of that ever memorable day the lightning messenger had 
sjiread the sad news over the civili/.ed world : " The President of the 
United States has been shot. " 

(.'onsternation filled the hearts of men and pallor blanched their 
clu'cks. Was it treason? Was it conspiracy ? Was it domestic broil ? 
Thank (Jod, no I it was the act of a madman ; and by its fruits we shall 
know it : the decree of a Providence working out after its own inscrut- 
able manner the destiny of nations. " The blood of the martyr is the 



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I'M 



seed of the church." On the drenched j-raves of battlefields l.looin the 
attributes of a great and free people. 

Death was not instantaneous. Tlie vu-tiin lingered between life and 
death for seventy-nine long and i)ainful days. Let us <lru\v u veil over 
that weary struggle. It almost made one " waver in his faith" that 
the prayers of a iiation availed naught; tiiat fortitude and pati-nce 
and resignation availed naught; tliat love and devotion availed naught. 
Agony and suffering were not even spared ; yea, tJiey seemed to over- 
till the fullest measure of woe that luunaii tlesh can bear. Tt shrunk 
and wasted, and wasted from day to day ; but the spirit kept its throne 
in all the grandeur of divine descent.—" 1 cannot understaml how 1 am 
so weak, when I look so well."— It continued to waste and wear away, 
under the very hands of ministering love, til! nothing remained l)ut 
the coarse outer frame of " mortal coil" tlirougii which tlowed.no 
longer blood enough to warm the heart within; then the spirit took 
its flight, and the sacrifice was complete. 

Tho President was dead! dead by the assa.ssin's bidlet ! and the 
nation is in tears ! Sorrow for the dead is hallowed by sympathy with 
the living ; a loving husband, a noble father, a faithful son, lies in death, 
lost to his dear ones because he was President of the I'nitetl States. 
That is the crimefor which he died. Justice of Destiny, pardon us in 
our ignorance if we understand not the fitness of thy decree! 

And the people feel that he died for them, and so they mourn and 
honor him, and make amends to his bereft. 

James Abram (larfield was an extraordinary man, of extraordin- 
ary career ; and fate, though cruel, remained true to iiim to the last, 
extraordinary in his death. 

Heroes liave lived and died in all ages; great and good men have 
gone before, who.se work still abides and bears fruit; excelling genius 
and intellect have reared pre-eminent and lasting monuments ere 
this ; but the annals of recorded time furnish no parallel, so compre- 
hensive, so rounded and complete as the life and death of President 
Garfield. 

Poets will exalt, and statesmen, historians and philo.soi)hers pause 
to moralize on this singular life, and still more singular end, long 
after the generation which witne.sses his death shall have passed away. 
Garfield's life is the epitome of the struggle of mankind. 

He came into the world with nothing but the ])rivileges and 
attributes which he brought from his Creator. He lei I it at the top- 
most round of luunan glory— a character moulded to perfection in the 
school of adversity through wdiieh he attained his eminence. 

Tt becomes apart of my task, even at the risk of wearying you, 
not, I hope by the subject, by 1 fear by my inability to do it justice, 
to review as briefly as 1 can the main incidents in the life and services 
of the honored dead to whose mortal remains we are now ottering the 
last sad tribute of recognition and respect. 

James Abram Garfield was born on the IHth of Deceiul)er, !«;>!, in 
the township of Orange, Cuyahoga county, Northeastern Ohio. His 
father, Abram Garfield, bought eighty acres of uncleared land in the 
midst of a forest, miles away from the habitations of men. On this 
he erected a log hut, about twenty by thirty feet, of most primitive 
simplicity. Such was the birth-place of the President whose death the 
people mourn to-day, whose memory is honored by the world. 

The family consisted of six : the parents and four children. When 
James was two years old the father died and left the mother with four 



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oipliaiiftl cliildit'ii, the oldest of whirl), Tiiomas, was about nine years 
()I(1. The eiuiity acres of land liad not been paid for in full. The 
mother sold fifty to get out of debt. This was the beginning. It is 
as memorable for the sacrifice which turned it onward and upward as 
for its lowliness. The widow knew privation and poverty were her 
lf)t and the lot of her elder children. Kliza Hallou, still living, 
niotiier of (iarlield, is of the family of a heroic and gifted Huguenot 
who fled fiom France after llie revocation of the edict of Nantes. 
Her love and lier hopes centered in her youngest son. He at least 
shall be a man among civilized men. He must be lifted out of the 
stagnation of isolated life to a sphere of action where prizes ai'e gained 
and victories achieved. The elder brother gave himself up to this 
sweet fancy and offered himself that James might go forward. This 
was the sacrifice. Cheerfully he followed his humble lot. He was 
content to be a toiler, " a hewer of wood and drawer of water," if only 
his younger bi'other could iie fitted for a. better destiny. 

Tluit is the most instructive period of tlie deceased's career which 
commenced wiien his brother led him by the hand to the country 
school-iu)use, and ended when, at the age of twenty-five years, he grad- 
uated at Williams College. He worked his way tlirough poverty and 
jn-ivation, but the end was ever clear to his mind. The struggle of to- 
day gave momentum to the effort of to-morrow. " Character is a per- 
fectly educated will," some one has .said. Cp to the age of sixteen or 
seventeen years, (iarfield showed nothing extraordinary in his being 
except that inde]jendence ami individuality of will without which no 
one ever became great. But liis a])plication had been desultory and his 
t)ursuits unsteady. A strange fancy possessed liim to adopt a seafaring- 
life. It must luive been the outgrowth of that indetinite yearning 
which imi)els great souls in tliat transitioji struggle from tlie vagaries 
of youth to tlie concentration of their faculties on some settled purpose. 
It ended by his becoming a canal-boat driver, of which he was cured 
liy an accident, which so nearly cost him his life, that his escape seemed 
a miracle to him. He returiu'd to his mother, whom he found, in the 
silence of night, ottering prayers by the tire-light for her wandering 
son. From tliat moment his character was formed; his "will was 
perfectly educated ;" he knew exactly what he wanted, and to resolve 
was to succeed. He set his heart on graduating in some Eastern 
college. He l)elieved in thorough education as tJie great civilizer of 
nations and the maker of men. He had heard or read tliat Wellington 
.said, the battleof Waterloo was planned in the shades of Eton College. 
The reasons he gave for selecting an Eastern college are characteristic : 
" Having always lived in the West, I think it will make me more lib- 
eral, both in my religious and general views and sentiments, to go Into 
a new circle wliere I shall be under new influences." 

How he paid liis way is known to all ; })artly by aid of kind triends, 
l)aitly i)y the earnings of his lal)or at odd hours, and serving as a jani- 
tor at the (U)llege. 

In bSoti, after his graduation, he becamt' teacher of Latin and 
(ireek at Hiram Institute. He soon became Principal, and while so 
oc(;upic<l, in 18.")8, married the noble woman who is to-day the nation's 
widow: all her greatness and glory and bai)piness shrunk into the 
cold and withere<l form of a murdered husband. 

At Hiram Institute, (iarlield laid the foundation for that )ratory 
which gave him such readiness and command on all occasions. He 
lectured to the school extemjtoraueously several times every week on 



historic, literary, or .soieiilific subjects. Some time heTore (his lie had 
written to a brotlier teacher : 

" Tell me, Burke, do you not feel a spirit stirring witliin you that 
longs to know, to do, and to dare? to iioid converse with the great 
world of thought, ami hold before you sr)me high and nol>le object to 
wliicli the vigor of your mind and the streiigtii of your arm may Ite 
given? Do you not liave longings such as these which you breathe to 
no one, and which you feel must l»e iieeded, or you will j)ass through 
life unsatisfied antl regretful? I am sure you have tlu'se, and they 
will forever cling around your heart until you obey their mandate. 
They are the voices of that nature which (Jod has given you, and 
which when obeyed, will bless you and your fellow-men." 

A man so gifted by nature and so perfected by study and letlec- 
tion, could not content himself with the professor's chair. The open-' 
ing ambition of his life was accomplished ; he was armed and equipped 
for tlie r«al struggle in which honor and distinction ai'e won. The 
second period of his life he entered with an even chance and soon dis- 
tanced competition. 

In 1859 he was elected a member of the State Senate of Ohio. 
When Lincoln's call for seventy-tive thousand men was read, in the 
midst of clamor and confusion, he jum])ed to his feet and moved that 
twenty thousand troops ami three niillion dollars be voted as the quota 
of Ohio. I refer to tliis to show a chara(;teristic of his mind : the fac- 
ulty to see and do the right thing at the right time, wliich is genius. 
He rose with every occasion and mastered the situation at every turn. 
VVhile preparing for liis departure with his regiment he writes: 

" I have had a curious interest in watching the process in my o\\ n 
nund, by which the fabric of my life is being demolished and con- 
structed to meet the new condition of affairs." 

His military career was brief but brilliant. He ro.se raj^idly to the 
rank of Major (general. He had but few o[)portunities of action, but 
whatever he did was done witli the i-learness, precision and self-reliance 
of tlie born leader. There was inspiration in everytliinghe touched. The 
mind's perception was clear and penetrating ; the action tliat followed 
overwlielming and complete. 

In 18(i3, while on duty with the armies of the North, he was elected 
to Congress by the Nineteenth District of Ohio. He did not leave the 
army until satisfied, by the assurances of superior ofticers and the re- 
quest of President Lincoln, that he could do so with honor. 

On the 4th of December, 18(38, he took his seat in the House of Ilepre- 
sentatives, thirty-two years old — the youngest member of the House, as 
he had been the youngest General in the army .and the youngest member 
of the Ohio Legislature, after struggling twenty-five years of his life to 
gain an even start with his fellow-men. 

The history of his congressional life is l)eyond the scope of this 
occasion; nor would I attempt to describe his oratory. In this, his 
own generation, when, perhaps, hundreds of thousands are living who 
have felt the power of his mind as it fiowed a living current from his 
lips, it would be folly or presumption on my part to repeat at second 
hand the traditions of eye-witnesses. This 1 know, that clearness and 
precision, and firmness never forsook him ; that he acquired a confi- 
dence in his own judgment which he always followed ; not because he 
could not believe himself to be wrong, but because lie matle it a canon 
of his life's faith to please his own conscience above all other things or 
persons. 



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Durinti' all his time in ('ongrcss, lie was an advocate and leader of 
that policy of recoiistructi<Mi if the Rei^ublican party, the scope and 
effect of wiiicli are well known. 

In the iieat of discussion and the passion of repartee sharp and sting- 
in}*- words niiiiht sometimes cross his lijjs, but at the bottom of all he 
said or did was a stratum of justice and the image of liberty and equal 
riLihts. rncompromising in* Ills fealty to Republican ideas, he never 
lost an opjxirtunity to draw his liearefs to the beauty of peace and the 
promises of reconciliation. 

in ISTo, during a intler discussion on a motion to restore Jeffer- 
son Davis to the rights of citizenship, he said : 

" Mr. Speaker, 1 close as T began. Toward those men who gal- 
lantly fought us on the field 1 cherish the kindest feeling. Tfeelasiucere 
reverence for the soldierly (jualities they displayed on many a well- 
fought battlefield. 1 hope the day will come wlien their swords and 
ours will l)e crossed over many a doorway of our children, who will 
remenil»er tlie glory of our ancestors with pride. The high qualities 
displayed in that conflict now belong to the whole nation. Let them 
be (consecrated to the Union, and its future peace and glory. 1 shall 
hail that consecration as a pledge and symbol of our perpetuity." 

( )ne word more on Garfield 's relation to the great < (uestions of legisla- 
tion which engaged the attention of Congress. 1 would not be just to the 
memory (if the dead if 1 did not recall his position on the great linan- 
cial pnllilems. From the moment he entered Congress he foresaw the 
diHtculties which were likely to come, and hesethimself to work to master 

! the subject in advance. He reduced it to the simplicity of maxims : "Pay 
your lionest debts with ' honest money ; ' paper money you may issue, 
"but let your paper dollar be a certificate'of actual value, convertible at the 
pleasure of the holder into a fixed amount of 'royal coin '; 'hat' 
paper money is a delusion and a snare : the more you issue the more 

j you need, because the more there is of it the more worthless it 
Ix^comes. " 

Let one utterance srfhce to illustrate the strength of his convictions 
on this subje('t. He had been absent in Europe. The Republican 
party of Ohio had been swept into " the Greenback current," and had 
adopted a i)lafforin looking to the payment of bonds in greenbacks. He 
was told that there was no stemming the torrent. An indiscreet word 

\ might cost him the nomination. He returned to Ohio, attended a re- 
cejition and was called to make a speecli. And he saicl : 

j " Much as I value your opinions, 1 here denounce this theory that 

has w()rk(^d its way into this State, as dishonest, unwise and unpatri- 
otic; and if I were offered a nomination and election for my natural 

, lile, from this districi, on this i)latform, I should spurn it. If you 
should ever raise the ([uestion of renominating me, let it be under- 

I stood yon (can have my services only on the ground of the honest 
paym('nt of this debt and th(^se bonds, in coin, according to the letter 
and spirit of the contract." 

j In person the deceased is described as a model of perfect manhood, 

of commanding stature and majestic mien, strong in repose, vehe- 

j nu'ut in action, flis moral nature was lofty as his intellect was grand. 

I The grasp of his hand was strong and his heart was warm. His 
domestic life was jiure and holy. He revered his mother with the 
devotion of a faith ; he loved her not as the child loves the parent, but 
the parent the child; for in the course of years he had become the 



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stroiit^er, ami she was his cai-c as he haiMu'eii lier's. H\< hmisc'hold 
was siiujilirity and faitli ami eoiindeiice and love. 

Into small as into ,ureat thinjis, h<' cairied l!)e niaji'iielism o!' 
jreniiis and tiie preseneeof inspiration. It is tiiat winch has eleetrilied 
the jieople oi' his eoiintry. Tliis universal outiiom'ini;- ofsyiupathy and 
mourning : this grief so tU'ej), so real, that mt'ii feel it hut speal< it not : 
this sjK>ntaneons eonseeration in fifty million human hearts to a fame 
and a lov^' and a glory, hallowed and undying -is il a false sentiment , 
a fancy of the moment? No: it is real as it will lie ev<Mlast ing. il 
comes not from us alone; it springs from our hearts in n'sponse to ilie 
divinity tliat radiates from the manifestations oi' ji sou! graml in ail 
the attril)utes which make man (Icxi-lil^e. 

>iis strange, eventful life, with its struggles, its purities, its devotion, 
its success, and its sacrifice, is a national possession and a national 
heritage. May its teachings he also a national Ides'^ing. 

It remains for us to make it so. 

The President died because his mission wa> I'cace. Lei theohjecl 
of tlie assassin he thwarted. By the memory of your sacred liead, con- 
secrate yourselves to that I'eace which he promised : the new (Tnioii 
which he foresaw: the new destiny of a reunited peo)>le. 

Ami when it is attained, let the Nation rear her nioninnent to 
Harmony and Concord, and on it inscribe in letters of everlastinir gold : 
"Sprung from the blood of the predestined James Abram Gartield, 
martyr President- Accursed be the generation that forgets the sacri- 
fice ! This is the sentence i»ronouneed by the Justice of his country I" 

The closing sentence was spolien with a jiowcr and energy that 
elicited the spontaneous applauseof the entire audience. 

The President then announced a Phavkh by the Rev. .lame.^ K. 
tUitheim, the well-known and learned Rabl)i of remi)le Sinai. 

The Prayer,— uttered in his deep tones and in ids usual grave, dig- 
nified manner, — was characterized by the choice diction, earnest feel- 
ing and clear thought that always enchain the closest attention of his 
hearers. 

The Lip:i»ekt.\fel Singers again assembled around the organ 
on the platform and sang Silcher's fine choral, the " Tribute to the 
Dead," beginning : 

" In silence sleep.'< tlie Hero. ' 

The sweetness and perfect harmony of the voices, anil tlu' adndrji- 
ble manner in which the most delicate passages of the score were 
rendered — so toned down as to nuike the combined notes sound as 
one long-drawn, gentle sigh — were worthy of the highest com- 
mendation. 

In the absence from the city of the Right Rev. Bishop F. H. 
Leray, of the Catholic Church, who had been announced to pronounce 



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llu' Heiicilictinu, the Kov. Dr. ralintT (tfViciak'd. And llieii the assem- 
bly sh)wly (iispersed. 

Ijoiiuere tlie cereiuonie.s t«'nniiiated, the shades ol' night had gatli- 
eicd. aii(1 tlie Hall was ilhmiiiiated hy the brilliant sunlifxhts in the 
<-cn(rr oltlie lofty ceiliiiii-. Tliey had often shone upon bright scenes of 
irai(>ly and ainusenient, an<l sueii <j;orf?eous pageants as no city hut 
New Oiivans, in the carnival season, jilaces before hosts of visitors. 
Tlicy never shone, howevci-, upon a more grandly impressive scene, or 
one licttci- exhibiting the people of the Orescent City in their nobler 
phases of genuine niaidy feeling, — simple and unaffected — true ami 
earnest and the more worthy of admiration ami respect from this 
vcrv simplieitv of earnestness and truth. 



ON THE RIVER. 



One of the most original and impressive displays of tlie feeling 
(hat luled New Orleans on "Memorial Monday" was 

■nil-: hivi:k's ii():M.\(ii': ro tmk i)kaj> I'RKsiden'I'. 

This a([uatic funeral pageant was an inipromi)tu atlair entirely, 
emanating from the fertile brain of (lai)tain B. I). Wood, and in 
which be was earnestiv assisted bv Captain vVni. McKay, of the Tug- 
boat W. M. Wood. 

The idea, although su.ggested only at half past 10 o'clock A. M., 
was carried through with a rai)idity and precision which will ever 
reflect honor upon all concerned in it. The W. M. Wood lay at the 
foot of Julia street, and immediately commem-ed signalling with the 
long and short whistles usually resorted to for the calling of any tug 
boat when needed. 

In less than thirty minutes after the signalling, the tug boat* 
N- M. Jones, "Maud Wilniot, Charlie Wood, Fern, Wasp, and Mag" 
uoiia lay in front of the commodore of the line — the W. M. Wood — in 
response to the several calls. 



Committees were in readiness to bedeck the Tugs appropriately for 
the occasion. All seemed imbued with the solemnity of the event, 
and never a word of levity nor a jesting glanc^e was heard or seen 
during the time the men were assisting in draping their boats. 

Although under no discipline nor orders whatever, each Captain 
and crew vied with the others in originality of adornment, while all 
displayed a willingness truly remarkable. 

At half past 1 o'clock a loud whistle from the W. M. Wood pro- 
claimed that all was in readiness. 

Each boat at once backed out from her moorings, and a general 
rush ensued as each Tug steamed out and lieaded for Morgan's Ferry, 
the point agreed upon for the procession to start from. 

It was a sight long to be remembered by all who witnessed this 
start. The river was roused into myriads of waves by these powerful 
motors, as they plowed along its surface, giving it an appearance of a 
" boor," such as is occasionally seen on the Hoogly or Ganges, or of a 
sea when ruffled by a sharp breeze, rather than the customary placid 
waters of the Mississippi. 

In a few seconds the Tugs steamed into line, each boat passing a 
rope from her stern to the one behind. Then, away they started up 
stream, a distance of fifty feet apart from each other, in the following 
order : 

The W. M. Wood, Capt. Wm. McKay ; 
The N. M. Jones, Capt. H. McNealy ; 
The Maud Wilmot, Capt. Robert Plant ; 
The Charlie Wood, Capt. Wm. Spence ; 
The Fern, Capt. John Davis ; 
The Wasp, Capt. M. Mclves ; 
The Magnolia, Capt. L. McNealy. 

Upon the top of the pilot house of the Commodore, W. M. Wood, 
was a bier formed of cross-pieces in the shape of a huge wood-horse, 
supporting a coffin appropriately draped and festooned. Between the 
huge gilded horns in front, was a black cross, while around the 
usually bright polished brass rails was a prolitte display of black and 
white drapery. 

The Fern had her pilot house tastefully festooned, and her smoke- 
stacks and stays were adorned with bows and streamers. 

Around the edges of the Charlie Wood's pilot house was seen black 
and white drapery in front and on the sides. 

The red horns of the Magnolia were hung with black and white, 
as were also her smoke stacks and pilot house. 

The Wasp displayed a flag with black stripes and stars on a white 
ground, and the usual drapery around pilot house and knee brace. 

The N. M- Jones and the Wilmot were neatly hung with festoons, 
bows and streamers. 

As the boats neared Canal street, the W. M. Wood sounded her 
whistle, which was taken up by all the other Tugs simultaneously, 
creating a weird and moaning sound, that made one's flesh crawl to 
hear. At times the chorus of whistles was low and mournful ; then it 
would swell to a degree almost deafening; and again subdued to a 
wailing tone that reminded one of the sighing of the winds in the lull 
of a great tempe?t. 

So startling was this strange concert of sounds, that the echoes 
brought crowds of people to the river front, all eager to learn the 
cause. 



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Immediately after passing Canal street, a signal was run through 
the entire line oVshippini; lying at the wharves ; and as the weird pro- 
cession plowed its way up the river, every vessel, whether foreign or 
otiierwise, dipped their pennants and tolled their bells. 

After reaching the i^^ievator the Tugs swung around in a semi- 
circle and returned to Canal street, where they disbanded. 

All who witnessed tiiis remarkable pageant on the water were 
impressed with its novelty and grace, and its perfect adaptation to the 
desired purpose. 



AT LAFAYETTE SQUARE. 



Despite the lateness of the hour at which the Procession terminated 
its march, and the unfavorable aspect of the weather as the day drew 
to a close, several thousands of spectators gathered around the jDlatform 
erected at Lafayette Square, on South street, opposite the First Pres- 
byterian Church, under the auspices of ex-Sheriff Thos. H. Handy 
and Mr. R. H. Bartley. 

The platform was tastefully draped in mourning, and there was an 
abundance of chairs for the accommodation of the numerous ladies 
and gentlemen who assembled to listen to the speeches. A fine band 
was also present. 

Ere long, the torch-lights around the stand were aflame, and Mr. 
Handy, as President of the meeting, introduced the Rev. Dk. Thos. 
R. IMarkiiam to open the proceedings with prayer. 

In fervent terms. Dr. Markham implored that the spirit of religious 
submission might descend upon the bereaved mother, wife and 
children of the dead President to console them in their desolation ; and 
that the lessons with which the national calamity was fraught, might be 
taken to heart by the people of New Orleans. 

The Band played Wallace's beautiful composition, "Sweet Spirit 
hear my Prayer." 



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Mr. Handy then read the folk 


wing list of 1 


vicp: pkesidents: | 


Gov. L. A. Wiltz, 


Lieut. Gov. S. D. McEnery, 


Gen. K. N. Ogden, 


Ex-Gov. F. T. NiclioUs, 


Gen. W. L. MciMillen, 


Col. Louis Bush, 


Hon. John Fitzpatrick, 


Hon. Allen Jumel, 


Hon. G. I)elaiuore, 


Hon. Will. A. Strong, • 


Hon. J. V. Guillotte, 


Hon. A. L. Tissot, 


Hon. B. T. Walshe, 


Hon. W. H. ixogers, 


Hon. P Mealey, 


Col. Jack Wharton, 


Hon. W. E. Hiiger, 


Col. C. H. Allen, 


Hon. Wni. Fagan, 


Col. J. 0. Landry. 


Col. Jos. Collins, 


Col. R. Richardson, 


Dr. Tlios. Campbell, 


Wm. McQuoid, 


Capt. Frank McElroy, 


Ex-Mayor L W. .Patton, 


M. A. DriUphin, 


Hon. Jno. McEnery, 


Jas. D. (.."olen)an, 


Hon. Kdwin Harris, 


Rev. J. K. Gutheini, 


Rev. T. R. Markham, 


Rev. J. .Moynihan, 


Dr. D. C. Holliday, 


]. N. Marks, 


Dr. J. F. Salomon, 


Jno. 1). Gaines, 


Wm.'B. Schmidt, 


Tim. O'iS'eil, 


F. M.' Zeigler, 


Win. ;->aloinon, 


Jno. J. O'Brien, 


Thos. C. \V. Ellis, 


0. N. Ogdeu, 


Jos. A. Walker, 


Jno. Coleman, 


Geo. Nicholson, 


Jos. A. Aiken, 


Jno. Janney, 


Robert H. Bartley, 


P. B. Pa List, 


G. Foliier, 


Tlios. O'Neil, 


A. Luria, 


VV. G. Boyland, 


B. C. Elliott, 


Wm. Walshe, 


John Carey, 


M. J. vSheehan, 


Wm. Henry, 


B. C. Woods, 


Eugene May, 


H. P. Phillips, 


E. L. Bower, 


Prieur Koaeh, 


John Schellang, 


J P^eiteg, 


Edgar Leche, 


D. M. Brosnan, 


Louis H Pili6, 


Wm. H. Bell, 


Thos. Reynolds, 


G. A. Schneidau, 


John 0. McLean, 


Richard Binnott, 


John C. Donovan, 


Chas. Bush, 


Wm. Bosworth, 


John Hawkins, 


Joseph Zeigler, 


T. C. Spori, 


Paul Gelpi, 


Alexander Smith, 


Joseph P. (Junes, 


Paul Haller, 


Wm. Gabler. 


And Secretaries : W. G. Boyland and D. Rosenburg. j 


The following Committee on 


Resolutions was then appointed : 1 


Hon. Wm. O. Rogers, Superintendent City Schools, Chairman ; 


Dr. D. C. Holliday, Jas. D. Coleman, Jno. J. O'Brien, Wm. McQuoid, 


B. C. Elliott, and Thos. C. W. Ellis. 



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Pending the report of the Committee, Mr. Handy introduced Col. 
jAtK WiiAKToN, tlie popuhir U. S. Marshal, who was cordially 
received. 

Col. Wharton said : 

" He was by no means prepared to deliver an address suitable to 
the occasion, but was there only as one ofthe fifty millions of American 
jjeople to express his deep grief at the death of tlie great man whom 
he revered, and who had l)Ut so lately gone to rest. During the seventy 
long days of his illness the American people trod lightly and the 
wheels of Government ran as smoothly as if they had been covered 
with velvet, lest they should disturb the strong but gentle sufferer 
who lay in the White House wounded by the bullet of an assassin." 

The 8|)eaker referred to the sympathy whicli all felt for the family 
of the President, and said " that even tlie"great Queen of England had 
not failed, in a beautiful manner that will gain her much love, to 
exj)ress the regret she felt at the misfortune which had befallen 
them." 

" The late President had been put in the Executive chair by the 
people, but he was the representative of God, by whom he was 
endowed and blessed. Garfield was great in peace, great in war, but 
he was to-day greater still in the hearts of the American people." 

"There is a movement on foot to erect a monument to President 
Gartieid. While the speaker favored the purpose, he thought that 
while the present generation lives Garfield needs no monument, as he 
will live in the hearts of the people, and his name will never be 
forgotten." 

" The procession was far grander than he had dreamed of, and its 
unexpected length had caused the time fixed for the opening of the 
meeting to be postponed several hours. He therefore asked to be allowed 
to close with tlie assurance that his heart was with the audience in 
any expression of grief which they might make. He would suggest, 
however, that all should bow quietly in submission to the will of Him 
wlio held the waters and the earth in His hand to do with them what 
he would." 

Hearty applause greeted this imiiromptu address, and the Band 

played Pleyel's hymn. 

Hon. Mk. Rogers, Chairman of Committee, then read the following 

RESOLUTIONS : 

The Citizens of New Orleans, assembled on this occasion in obedi- 
ence to the proclamations of the President of the United States, the 
Governor of this Commonwealth, and the Mayor of the City, "to 
render alike the tribute of sorrowful submission to the will of Almighty 
God, and reverence and love for the memory and character of our late 
Chief Magistrate," do solemnly resolve: 

That we hunjbly and reverently acknowledge the hand of God in 
the alHiction which has overtaken our land. In a tinie of public peace 
and jtrosperity, in the enjoyment of personal rights common to all 
citizens of the Kei)ul)lic, in the discharge of that high office to which he 
had been elected by the voice of the people, James A. Garfield was shot 
by an assassin, and, after weeks of patient and heroic suffering, in 



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which he became still more endeared to the country, surrendered his 
spirit to (jlod who gave it. In tlie general sorrow which Ihisdeatli, 
under circumstances so appalling, has occasioned, it becomes a people 
whose God is the Lord to acknowledge His power and bow in submis- 
sion to His chastening hand. 

Jiesolved, That standing in the shadow of this great national 
bereavement, surrounded by the tokens of general grief, our buildings 
draped with the emblems of mourning and the sounds of labor hushed 
in our streets— we, who are assembled here as in the presence of the 
dead, disregarding all past ditlerences and political distinciions, unite 
in a tribute of respect to the memory of our deceased President. In his 
personal history he illustrated the spirit and the possibilities of our free 
institutions. In his private life and public service he adorned the 
highest rank of American citizenship. In the consecration of his 
talents, his statesmanship, and the intluences of his exalted position — 
to ])romote the happiness and prosperity of the whole country— ne was 
justly honored as the worthy and illustrious leader of a great people. 
in his brief but eventful career as Chief Magistrate he so discharged 
the duties of that high ottice as to command the respect and affection 
of his countrymen and the admiration of all enlightened nations. 

Jiesolved, That our sympathies are tendered to the family of our 
deceased President. The sorrow and suffering to which the members 
of that family have been subjected, during the last ten weeks of alter- 
nate hopes and fears, have been viewed by us with the warmest sensi- 
bility; and must ever make their future lives and condition a matter 
of affectionate interest to the whole country. 

Hesolved, That we regard with abhorence the crime which strikes 
down, in the midst of his usefulness, the man innocent of wrong, the 
husband and father of a loving household, the honored President of a 
happy and prosperous people ; and we deplore the danger to the peace 
of society and to the prosperity of our free institutions in the possible 
spread of a spirit which makes recourse to the assassination of a public 
officer the remedy for personal wrongs, real or imaginary. And in 
view of the present calamity to our country and the history of the 
past, we invoke for our rulers in authority the increased ditiusion of 
patriotism among all classes of society, tiie firm moral support of all 
good citizens, and, above all, the protection of Divine Providence. 

Hesolved, That a copy of these resolutions be forwarded to the 
family of the deceased and to the Secretary of State of the National 
Government. 

The Resolutions were approved by the audience with the most 
thorough unanimity. 

Mr. Clark W. Besancon delivered a brief and feeling address. 
He said : 

" Although glittering uniforms could everywhere be seen, and 
" although strains of music were heard in all portions of the city, it 
" was no gala day which had called forth the multitude. On the con- 
•' trary, when he looked around and saw the mourning draperies on 
" every house, he knew that it bespoke that there was in that house a 
" portion of that grief which permeated the whole American conti- 
" nent. There was no distinction of politics or race in mourning for 
'the dead President. The Procession to-day was not one of joyful 



" hearts, but one in which all races and colors joined to show how 
" deeply they felt the national loss. The whole community carry iu 
" theirlieart's tlie sorrow which is inexpressible. The loss whicli the 
" people have been called upon to meet is indeed unbearable, but it 
" was the duty of all to l)ow their heads in humility and say : 'May 
" the Lord's will be done!' " 

President Handy next introduced that very eloquent and graceful 
speaker, the Hon. E. John Ellis, M. C He addressed the audience 
as follows : 

My Countrymen— It is meet and right that your added presence 
should swell the (solumn of tluit mourning host that, witli crape-clad 
garnuMits and bowed heads, has this day uorne the mortality or James 
AbraTii Garlield to its linal home, by the dash and throb of the inland 
sea. Tills injmense concourse, the ■solemn SLillness" that "all the 
air" seems to •'hold," these trappings of woe and the impressive 
funeral pageant that lliis day maUe ils mourntul niarcli through the 
sable-clad streets of our great city, are eloquent and impressive voices of 
that i)rofound sympatliy and sorrow that hold sway iu the hearts of 
titty millions ol Americans. 

This day is indeed a "Sabbath of sorrow " in all the length and 
breadth of our common country, because he, who but six short months 
ago, amid acclamations of rejoicing, and bearing upon bis brow the 
anointing impress of the American band, through triumphal arches and 
over roadways of garlands, and amid music and pomp and circum- 
stances such as never united to grace the glory of Olympian victor or 
Koman conqueror, was borne to the Chiel Magistracy ol the Kepubiic, 
— is to-day no more on earth. 

Cold is the splendid brain, silent the witchery of the magnetic 
tongue, still is the good, WiUiu, generous heart, and the inagniricent 
manhood, which in port and stature was fitting temple for tlie indwell- 
ing of the lofty mind and heroic soul, is a darkened and shattered ruin, 
and swiftly mouldering to tlie kindred dust. 

The morning sun whicli uprose above his newly-born administra- 
tion and seemed to tlood the continent with golden promise of peace 
and union and prosjjerity, has been quenched as swiftly and suddenly 
as the gleam of tliefugitive meteor. At his post of duty, with tirm hand 
upon the wheel and guiding with voice ana arm and power the desti- 
nies of our liei)ublic, — in a moment of perfect calm, — when sky and 
sun and sea seemed but one great angel smile of peace, and held 
nowhere a token of danger, — he is stricKen down by the hand of au 
assassin. 

A startled nation feels the shock to its heart's core. Every Amer- 
ican worthy to be a citizen of the Kepubiic realizes that a blow has 
been struck, not alone at a life that should have been held sacred, but 
at the very life of our institutions; and fifty millions of people gather- 
ing around his couch with loving sympathy and earnest prayers, and 
all that mortal aid could avail, watcUed his brave struggle for life with 
lluctuations of hope and fear. In the lirst hours of the tragedy he said 
to the surgeon, ■ Well, Doctor, what of my case?" '" You have a 
chance," said the surgeon. •• Well, we will take that chance," cheerily 
resjjonded tlie stricken President. And by his heroic bearing, his 
patience in sullering, the calm brave way in which he faced the gath- 



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ering darkness, ho drew to himself the affection and tender sympathy 
of the whole world. 

To-day a civilized world mourns his loss. !-!ectional animosities are 
buried in his grave. Political diflerences are forgotten. Among the 
sincerest mourners above (larlield's grave aretliose who fronted him in 
the dread array of battle. I see those grand heroes of th(> South here 
before me ; I saw them to-tlay moving witli measured tread in the 
solemn funeral march ; I liav'e heard them plead from the pulpit in 
prayers white-winged with faith for the stricivcn President; I have 
heard them teach their little ones to add to their nigiitly prayers a new 
jietition for the life of tlie heroic sufferer. — And the great' party that 
disagreed with his political views and cast its mighty vote against 
him, in all of its deliver inces and utterances and through all its or- 
gans, has uttered but the voice of tender symi)athy and affectionate- 
respect above his suffering couch, and now, above his tear moistened 
grave. 

The men of America mourn him because they could but admire 
the cultivated mind, the enlightened soul, the great acquirements, the 
manly courage, the eloquent tongue, the kindly heart of the martyred 
President. Tlie women of tiie land weep for him who was the devoted 
son. the tender, faithful, confiding husband and father. The business 
interests of the Union mourn him because they felt safe and secure in 
his hands. Commerce mourns him with furled sails and pennants 
trailing at half-mast, while the voice of winds and waves seem sol)l)ing 
and sigiiing their wordless woe. Labor mourns him and stands idle 
to-day in all her factories and furnaces, and with "liard, rongii hands" 
wipes away the grief drops that flow for him wiio was tiie friend of 
American labor Agriculture hears voices of weejiiug amid the reapers 
and turns tear-blinded away from the ffolden fields of promise to add 
the burden of her sorrow to the general woe. A nd nway across the seas 
from every land come the testimonials of sorrow and synijiathy from 
nations and peoples in which sovereign and peasant alike unite. Upon 
his iifeless breast is placed in commingled love the inunortelle of the 
laborer and the garlanded wreath of the sovereign. 

In the limited time at iTiy disposal, I cannot enter into the details 
of the life of the dead Chief Magistrate. But there are some lessons 
which it teaches, and briefly I propose that we gather of these for our 
guidance and instruction. 

Garfield was sprung from the people. At his birth on the frontier 
of the Republic, poverty presided, and toil welcomed him to life. 
Without advantages of wealth, without other aid than the guidance 
and counsel of a true, good mother, he began the battle with the world. 
Steji by step, from the meagre learning of the frontier school-house to 
the boy upon the canal boat. — from the academy whither he worked 
his own way to the college that proudly claims to be his alma mater, — 
from the professorship of the college where once he was a pupil to the 
seat in the Senate of his native State,— from thence to the rank of 
Major General in the volunteer armies of the Union. — from thence to 
a seat in the lower House of Congress, where lie gave to his State 
eighteen years of service; — from thence to the Senate of the United 
States, and from thence to the Chief INIagistracy of the Ilepublic, 
Garfield fought hia way patiently and courageously. 

If he possessed genius it was simply the capacity for labor and the 
gift of perseverance. Perhaps it was in review of his own strange 
career, from the tow-path boy at $10 per month to the Presidency, that 



144 HISTORY OF THE 



in a speech he once said, " I feel a profounder reverence for a boy than 
for a man. I never met a ragged boy on tlie street witliout feeling that 
1 owe him a salute for the possiblities that may be buttoned up under 
his jaelvct." 

Here, then, is one valuable lesson from the life that is just closed. 
It is : that hibor and perseverance are the true touchstones of success ; 
and that with tliese the poorest and liumblest boy of the Republic may 
arise to honorable and useful places, and win fame and name that will 
give liiiu honor wliile he lives and a people's sorrow when he dies. 

Sprung from the ps;)ple, Gen. (iirfield never forgot the people. 
The source and secret of his long and unbroken successes was his close 
sympathy witii his people. He appealed directly to the popular heart 
and carried that heart with him. He never courted politicians, nor 
leaned for aid upon them. Nor was his the unreal, shadowy fame that 
in this day is so often made by newspaper correspondents. He looked 
for support directly to the true source of power, the hearts and the con- 
fldence of the people, and he was true to his people and they were true 
to him. Successes and accumulated honors did not change him. 

Full of humanity, of quick and generous sympathies, preserving 
fresh and unalloyed in his heart the home love and the domestic vir- 
tues, it was not wonderful that he drew the hearts of the people after 
him. In the hour of his supreme triumph, just when the sonorous 
tones of his voice had rung his inaugural address in the ears and hearts 
of assembled thousands, and his lips had just pressed the seal of his soul 
upon the oath of his high offlce, he turned away from the plaudits of 
the tens of thousands, from the outstretched hands of Chief Justices 
and Senators, and diplomatists and ex-Presidents, to kiss the noble old 
mother that bore him, and the Spartan woman who was the crown and 
glory of his life and the motlier of his childi'en. The intense humanitj' 
of tlie man was always above the office. 

So in the very hour of his assassination, and when, as he supposed, 
life was fast ebljing away, he forgot himself in his thoughts of 
home, and wife, and children, and directed how the fateful telegram 
should be worded that was to inform and yet not rudely shock the 
woman whom lie loved. And when she came, nerving herself to meet 
him, it was liis voice, weakened by suffering, but still tender and 
cheerful, that said : " Don't cry, sweetheart, we will pull through this 
trouble all right." 

Words like these, uttered at such a time, smote upon'the very heart- 
chords of bis countrymen and thrilled them to tender, tearful sym- 
pathy with the loving and great-hearted sufferer. 

President Garticld, in these traits of his character, has taught us 
two valuable lessons. He has impressed the value and virtues of the 
domestic atfectious, and taught us that these should be kept pure and 
undeliled; and also that the man who would have the people true to 
him, must always be true to the people, and look directly to them as 
tlie only legitimate source of power. 

Although a strong partisan in his feelings he was capable of lofty 
magnanimily. Elected to the United States Senate in place of the 
vunerablu and gifted raurman, he paid to his distinguished predecessor 
and opponent a trlbiite of the loftiest praise. His friendships in the 
House of Representatives were not governed by party, creed or sectional 
lines. His personal relations were close and intimate with men who 
had Ibught him in war and disagreed with him in peace. His heart 
was (|uick to do a kindly act. 



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From my own personal association with him during six years of 
public service, I recur witli melanclioly pleasure to an insstance of the 
generous and courtly way in which he could do a kindness. There 
was in the Post Office Department at Washington a clerk, a kindly, 
chivalrous man, who unfortunately became intoxicated one day, and 
in consequence was dismissed from' his post. I felt a strong interest in 
the young man, both for his own merits and because of a sweet girl 
wiiom he had just married, whose family were among the earliest of 
my friends in Washington. He was, besides, the son of a noble Confed- 
erate soldier who met his fate beneath the battle flag of the South as he 
led his gallant Carolina regiment in the tiercest of the fray at Manas- 
sas. And so my young friend and his devoted young wife came and 
asked me to intercede with the Postmaster General that he might be 
reinstated. More than willing to make the eftbrt, I yet knew that I 
could accomplish but little without strong Repul)lican"inlhienee to aid 
me. And so I drew up the requisite petition and signed it, and cross- 
ing the hall to where Gen. Garfield sat, I related all the circumstances 
to him, and invoked his aid. Without a question he took the petition 
from my hand and wrote: 

" Apollo should not always bend his bow. If he had, what would 
long since have become of me, and of you, Mr. Postmaster General?" 

" James A. Garfield." 

When I presented the petition, the Postmaster General (it was the 
kindly, genial Key, of Tennessee), read the indorsement of Gen. Gar- 
field and laughingly ordered the reinstatement of my friend. 

Another time, I remember to have gone to Garfield with the 
request that he would make a speech on the Mi-ssissippi River Com- 
mission bill. The debate was drawing to a close, and the time was lim- 
ited. " General," said I, " I would be glad if you would make a speech 
in favor of this measure." " I had not thought of doing so," he replied, 
" but if you can secure some time for me I will speak." I had secured 
some fifteen minutes for some remarks I wished to make, but I knew 
Garfield's power, and I gladly gave him my time; and so I told him ; 
" You will be recognized next, and will have fifteen minutes."— Then 
kindly taking my hand, he said, earnestly, " I a/n glad that there are 
occasionally great questions upon which we can meet and harmonize. 
Thank God, the mists are clearing away between the sections. And 
when they are gone, and we see clearly, 'how vast will be our wonder 
that we permitted prejudice and passion to blind and befog us so long." 
And soon he arose and spoke with such tremendous power that he 
carried largely more than half the House with him. 

The thought that he then expressed to me in life seems to have 
been realized in his death. Thank God, the mists are clearing. In his 
grave, sectionalism seems this day to be buried. And for this great 
boon, for which the patriot heart has so long prayed, perhaps this sac- 
rifice, stupendous though it be, was needed. — There was a time of danger 
once in Rome, so runs the old Latin legend, when a great, yawning 
gulf, opening in the Forum, threatened to engulf and destroy the Eter- 
nal City ; and the frightened priests were told by the vengeful gods that 
it would never close until Rome's most precious treasure was thrown 
into it. And so Curtius— type of patriotic devotion for all the ages- 
divining that a State could hold no treasure so priceless as the life of 
her bravest and most patriotic son, armed and panoplied himself in 
glittering steel, and mounting the charger that was used to bear him to 
the battle's front, leaped into the dark abyss; and, as if saved by this 

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most j2:Iorious sacrifice, the black chasin slowly closed its hideous jaws 
and Rome was saved. 

More than sixty years ago, the dread f?ulf of sectionalism yawned by 
the very altar of our country. No matter, now, whose was the fault. It 
appeared, it grew, it widened Ft brought hatreds and strifes, and 
threats, and l)itterness, and drew away tlie hearts of Americans from 
the love and tlie trust of the fathers. In vain did heroes bleed, in vain 
did sages warn. Finally there came war; and over, and into this gulf, 
Americans fought, and thi' blood of Americans, shed by American hands, 
was poured. A million of noble lives were offered up. Women wept their 
husbands, and children mourned their fathers, and yet tlie gulf would 
not close. And since the strife and the l)loodshed, the gulf has re- 
mained until now. — To-day, thank God, it is closed ! 

The warm outbur.-t (jf syni|)athy and love that broke from the great 
heart of the South for the stricken President, who was their enemy in 
war, and whose political course and theories in peace were with those 
who seemed against the prejudices and sympathies of the South, has 
touched the generous heart of the mighty North as it has not been 
touched before. In the gloom of this common grief, the sections see 
each other as they have not seen before ; and over the suffering couch 
and around the tear-moistened grave of the martyred President, they 
have met and realized, with the old love <)f our Cutliers warm in their 
sad hearts, that tliey are one : one in love, in hope, in sympathy and 
destiny forever. And so the gulf of sectionalism closes upon the sacred 
form of the dearH President. God grant that the sacrifice may prove 
enough! God of our fathers, grant that the Union, thus recemented, 
may grow stronger and stronger as the years roll on, and live a quick- 
ening and animating presence, in the heart of every American. And 
if this shall be so, then will James A. Garfield's death have accom- 
plished what his life was powerless to achieve, though he wielded the 
soldier's sword and wrote the statesman's law. 

In his long and eventful career, it would be more than strange 
had Gen. Garfield made no mistakes, and been led into no errors — 
" It is human to err." — But let us forget, in this solemn hour, whatever 
of mistakes or errors he may have committed- I^et the mantle of 
charity fall upon anything that may be unpleasant to remember. As 
we would have our own faults forg-otten, let us forget As we would 
be forgiven, let us forgive. It is nobler to remember men's virtues and 
to bury their mistakes, when they have passed away. He would have 
been more or less than mortal, had he ruade no mistakes. Life, with 
him, was one long continued battle. Is it, then, matter of wonder that 
he should have worn scars ? 

Gen. Garfield was not a genius in the ordinary acceptation of that 
term ; but he had, what he liimself pronounced the very best substi- 
tute for it — tiie capacity to do hard work. His mind was clear and 
strong. Nor did he let the keen blade of his intellect grow dim or dull 
with rust. All through the exactions and requirements of twenty 
years of public life, he was a hard student. He was accustomed to 
read the classics ; and hardly a day passed in which he failed to read 
from the best (ireek and Latin authors. He wrote Latin verses in liis 
moments of leisure, and the choicest passages of Horace and Homer 
and Juverud were on his tongue. He found time, too, to devote to sci- 
entific research ; and delighted in the worship of those priests of truth 
and nature who wooed from their divinity her weird secrets. 

As an orator he was bold, strong, aggressive. His voice was deep 



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and sonorous. It was powerful ratlier than musical, and liad in it 
rather the ring of Vulcan's ponderous haunner than the clarion music 
of Hermes. At times he was intensely emotional ; and then his voice 
would deepen, and roll, and peal, like the notes of some wondrous 
organ when it dashes its storm of melody along pillared aisle, and 
fretted vault, and up against sculptured dome. 

One scene in the House of Representatives is forever fixed upon my 
memory. It impressed me then ; but since thp weary weeks of his 
struggle and suffering, and since his spirit has broken from its mutil- 
ated prison house and is forever at rest, that scene comes to me with 
vivid sadness. 

Garfield was doing what I ani trying to do. He was paying a trib- 
ute to a dead Senator. His heart was sorrowful, and all the tenderness 
and all the pathos of his nature were aroused. 

The noisy House was still for once. Members gathered about the 
impassioned orator and listened with rapt interest. Then, with a far 
away look in his tearful, uplifted eyes — the look of a spirit that was 
brave, but yet weary of the vain strife and stormy cares of this life — 
and saw by inspiration a better, purer, higher life, where peace forever 
reigns and smiles— he repeated with power and pathos these lines of 
Bonar ; and as he recited them a flood of tender emotion swept over the 
House and sr.rong men wept. The lines were these : 

Beyond the smiling and tlie weeping, 

I sliall be soon ; 
Beyond ttie waiting and the sleeping. 
Beyond the sowing and the reaping, 
I shall be soon. 
liOve, rest, and home ! 
Sweet home ! 
Lord, tarry not, but come ! , 

Beyond the blooming and the fading, 

I shall be soon ; 
Beyond the shining and the sliading, 
Beyond the hoping and the dreading, 
I shall be soon. 
Love, rest, and home ! 
Sweet home 1 
Lord, tarry not, but come ! 

Beyond the rising and the setting, 

I shall be soon ; 
Beyond the calming and the fretting, 
Beyond remembering and forgetting, 
I shall be soon. 
Love, rest and home ! 
Sweet home ! 
Lord, tarry not, but come ! 

Beyond the parting and the meeting 

I shall be soon ; 
Beyond the farewell and the greeting, 
Beyond the pulse's fever beating, 
I shall be soon. 
Love, rest and home ! 
Sweet home ! 
Lord, tarry not, but come ! 

Beyond the frost-claain and the fever 

I shall be soon ; 
Beyond the rock.-waste and the river, 
Beyond the ever and the never, 
I shall be soon. 
* Love, rest and home ! 

Sweet home ! 
Lord,,tarry?not, but come ! 



148 HISTOKY OF THE 



God gniiit that he has fouud the " love, the rest and the home " 
foi- which Ids weary spirit must have sighed and longed and prayed 
during tliose weeks wlien the "frost-chains" of the chill and the 
l)arcliing of tiae lever lield liis mutilated body in their torturing thrall. 

Ill his boyhood dreams lie was enamored of the sea. He longed to 
be a sailor. There was in its freshness and freedom, in its limitless ex- 
panse, its awful solitude and in its stormy voice a something for which 
his aspiring spirit longed. The counsels of his mother prevailed and 
turned his life in another channel. But his love for the sea he never 
forgot; and he longed for it with unutterable desire as he lay battling 
witli tlie grim destroyer. And so they bore him witli tender hands to 
(lie by the sea — with tlie sigliing of Ijis early love in his ear, and its 
thunderous surge and boisterous voice speal^ing to his struggling soul 
of tliat ocean of eternity upon whose bosom he would soon be launched, 
and where storms never beat and the waves are always at peace. 

And now, my countrymen, what of the future? — The inquiry will 
force itself upon each and every one of us as to the probabilities and 
possibilities of the incoming Administration. It must be a source of 
infinite comfort that our institutions have passed this terrible ordeal 
without ajar. In a moment of terror and darkness, sixteen years ago, 
when Abraham Lincoln was stricken down by the assassin's hand, it 
was the voice of him whom we this day lament, that said : "God reigns, 
and the Government at Washington still .lives." !So, in the very 
thought of Garfield, and in liis memorable words, I say to you, "God 
reigns, and our government will still live on." — Let us not harbor the 
tliought that the lives and liberties and well being of tifty millions of 
Americans are dependent upon the life or acts of any one man. Dur- 
ing the ten weary weeks of Gartield's illness we governed ourselves. 
Ou*r Chief Magistrate has no power of himself. The power he wields 
is not his, it is ours. He is the mere shadow and representative of the 
sovereignty of the whole people. 

It is told us by the public journals that on last Friday evening, as 
the sable-clad train which bore the dead President, slowly moved away 
from Washington, a gentle rain was falling, when suddenly the sun 
burst through the clouds and a beautiful double rainbow formed above 
and around the dome of the Capitol. — Let us accept the omen. Let us 
resolve to give to the new President a cordial and warm support in all 
his ellbrts to promote the public good. Let us show him that we 
regard him as our President, and that we trust his patriotism and his 
qualilications. Let us cultivate a broad catholic spirit of devotion to 
the Union in all its unbroken and undivided majesty. Let us set our 
faces sternly to a reform of those abuses, and a correction of that spoils 
system which has made the existence of the assassin a possibility. 

Then will we realize the omen that God wrote on the clouds when 
he transformed their tears to smiles as the dead President was borne 
from the scene of his labors, and the beautiful bow of hope and promise 
bended its glowing and glorious arch above the dome of the ISational 
Capitol. 

This very eloquent address was frequently and warmly applauded. 

Tlie Band played the " 8weet By-and-Bye;" and Chairman 
Handy came forward to ■tate that the well known Poet Priest, 



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FATHER RYAN, 

who had been invited, was not able to leave his hoine in Mobile, but 
had sent the Committee in charge of the nieetin;^ the following tele- 
graph dispatch: 

MouiLE, Ala., Monday, September 2Bth. 

To Messrs. Thos. Handy and Robert Bartley, Committee of Garfield Obsequies : ' 

I regret my inability tobepresentat President (Jarlleld's obsequies. 
My heart is with you. Wherever in the North or South, after this day 
consecrated by the grief of a continent and the world, whoever will 
dare to lift a voice of sectionalism in the country will insult the beauti- 
ful memory of the victim President. He will be worse than the maniac 
who shot the President ; and will strike a blow at the hearts of fifty mil- 
lions of people fused into one great, vast, sympathetic heart by the bul- 
let that deprives the people of a great and good man. 

Father Ryan. 

" The Star Spangled Banner " was played by the band, followed by 
"Hail Columbia." Then Rev. Dr. Markham pronounced a Benedic- 
tion, and the assemblage was dismissed. 

And so ended the Funeral, Obsequies held by the People of 
New Orleans, on Monday, September 26th, 1881, to honor the 
Memory of the Martyr-PRESiDENT, James Abram Garfield. 




APPENDIX. 



Giving Sketches of most of the Associations, military and 
civic, that appeared in the Procession on " Memorial Monday," or 
that otherwise took part in the public proceedings had in New Orleans, 
first in July, and then in September, 1881. 

The Data for these Sketches were obtained from authentic sources. 

There has been no occasion like this since the War,^when the City 
of New Orleans was so admirably and so fully represented, through 
her Associations of all kinds. These Sketches will therefore, it is 
hoped, be of an interest appertaining to the historical, and on that 
account, will be read by our children and our grandchildren. 



GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC. 



JOSEPH A. MOWER POST, No. ].— Di; i-AKTMrcxT of Louisiana. 




Organized, April 10th, 1S72. Charter granted by General Ambrose 
E. BuKNSiDE, Commander in Chief, U. s!— Roswell Miller, 
Assistant Adjutant General. 

The following were the 

CHARTER MEMBERS OF THE POST: 

Mark Joseph, James H. Wright, W. G. James, York A. Wood- 
ward, Isadore McCormack, Charles Barnard, Fred. H. Whitaker, 
John S. Nissou, H. S. Burrows, Joseph H. Lawlor, J. W. Harrison, 
A. D. Woodworth, Frank Gee, and Van R. K. Hilliard. 

The present officers of the post, are: 

William Roy, Post Commander ; 

Wm. S- Hamlet, Senior Vice Commander ; 

F. W. Gibson, Junior Vice Commander ; 

J. M. BiNG, Post Adjutant ; 

J. H. Wright, Post Qxiarter Master ; 

J. B. LuDWiCK Post Surgeon ; 

Patrick Flood, Post Chaplain; 

M. M. Fuller, Officer of the Day ; 

G. W. Miller, Officer of the Guard; 

S. Dalrymple, .....Sergeant Major ; 

J. H. Lawlor, Quarter Mastex Sergeant. 

past commanders: 
Mark Joseph, York A. Woodward, 

W. G. James, Wm. Roy, Wm. Wright. 



Headquarters, Grand Army of the Republic, "l 
No. 15 Pemberton Square, j- 

Boston, Mass., September 20, 1881. ) 
IGcmral 0)-der.s No. 10.] 

Dead at Elberon ! — The mournful message, the solemn toll of bells, 
tlie lialf-raised i\iig, tlie saddened countenances, speak the Nation's 
sorrow for its ilhi.strious dead. — The weeks of weary, patient suffering 
are ended, and Phksidknt James A. Garfield, our Comrade and old 
companion-in-arms — tlie pure patriot, brave warrior, wise statesman, 
noble ruler. Ciiristian hero, — has been mustered outof our Grand Army, 
to join the ranks of the invisible host above. In every home in our 
broad land to-day there is one dead. 

But there is no death to one whose life has been brave, and gener- 
ous, and true. Though the sleeping form may moulder into dust, his 
memory lives in immortal youth ; and in this hour of universal gloom 
we temper our sorrow and dry our tears in the sunshine of his great 
worth and bright exam])le. 

S])ared from the peril of hotly contested fields, General Garfield 
has fallen by the assassin's bullet; but not till he had given to the 
Republic, in the fullness of a well-rounded manhood, a life of purity, 
sweetness and nobility which will stand as an example to American 
youth, through unnumbered years to come. 

Our tenderest sympathy and warmest love go out to the brave, 
devoted wife, the aged mother, and the weeping children, in the 
bereavement which we can only faintly feel and share. 

It will be fitting, during the passage of the funeral cortege to the 
place of final rest, that the Grand Army of the Rei^ublic, wherever 
opportunity presents, should offer to act as escort or guard of honor to 
the body of tUeir late comrade. 

AH Officers of the Grand Army, when on duty on public occasions, 
will wear crape upon the left arm during the next thirty days ; colors 
will be appropriately draped during the same period and flags should 
be displayed at half-mast on the day of the funeral. 
By command of 

GEO. S. MERRILL, 
\V I L L I A M M . O L I N , Commander in Chief. 

Adjutant General. 

IN NEW ORLEANS. 

On receipt of the above order in New Orleans, a meeting of Joseph 
A. MowioR Post was held at their Headquarters for the purpose of 
testifying their profound respect for their late Comrade, James A. 
(Jar FIELD. 

Col. Wm. Roy, Post Commander, presided, and ajipointed the fol- 
lowing a Committee on Resolutions : 

A S. Badger, Chairman ; Wm. Wright, J. B. Ludwick, M. M. 
Fuller, O. H. Brewster, York A. Woodward, and Geo Drury, who 
acted as Secretary. 

They soon after presented the following report, which was unani- 
mously adopted : 

resolutions. 

" Wherenst, — The sad intelligence has reached this Post that our 
('hief Magistrate has pa.ssed from earth, stricken down while in the 
zenith of his fame, by the bullet of an assassin, and 



APPENDIX. 153 



" Whereas, — While the nation is mourning her ilhistrious dead, it 
is meet that we should assemble and otter our humble condolence and 
sympathy, and express our deep regrets for a comrade killed in tlie dis- 
charge of his duty ; therefore be it 

" Resolved, — That in the death of Gen. Jas. A. Garfield, the country 
loses its brightest ornament and the nation one of its wisest statesmen 
and noblest soldiers — As ex-soldiers, we hailed with delight his ascend- 
ency to the head of the Republic, as a representative of our organiza- 
tion ; and it is with sincere sorrow that we behold his descent from 
that exalted station to the grave ;— Be it further 

''Resolved, — That, in common with the whole people of our country, 
we condole with his bereaved family in the loss of one who, while 
possessing all the grand attributes of a ruler, statesman and soldier, 
was imbued with those liner feelings which make the husband and. 
lather dear to his wife and children. 

" And the Committee recommend that the Commander of the Post 
be directed to cause to be forwarded, through the Secretary of War, to 
Mrs. Garfield and family, a copy of the foregoing Resolutions, and that 
the Headquarters of the Grand Army of the Republic and the Press 
be furnished with copies." 

On the day of the Funeral Obsequies in New Orleans, a Commit- 
tee of this Post, under M. M. Fuller, Officer of the Day, formed a part 
of the Third Division under Comrade, Marshal Gen. A. S. Badger. 
The Post, in charge of F. W. Gibson, Junior Vice Commander, at the 
head of Canal street, at 1 o'clock, 27 minutes and 14 seconds, (being 
li o'clock, Cleveland time, at which hour the funeral cortege there 
moved), fired the first gun of a mortuary salute of twenty-one guns, 
at intervals of three minutes. 

THE OKGANIZATION. 

It may not be inappropriate, at this time and in this place, to pre- 
sent a brief sketch of an Organization, of which our martyred Pres- 
ident was an honored member, he having filled the high "position of 
Commander-in-chief of his native State, Ohio. He was also an active 
member of the Department of the Potomac, G. A. R. 

The Grand Army of the Republic resembles the old Order of 
Cincinnatus, with this difference: the Order of Cincinnatus was 
originally composed of only the Officers of the Revolutionary Army, 
while the Grand Army of the Republic is comjiosed of ex-Union 
Officers, Soldiers and Sailors, who served during the late war. The 
organization comprises over one thousand Posts, with a member- 
ship of over one hundred thousand, and is rapidly increasing in mem- 
bers. It not only assumes to be, but is absolutely unsectarian in reli- 
gion and unpartisan in politics, making only loyalty and an honorable 
discharge the condition of membership. It is now well demonstrated 
that the Grand Army of the Republic has never obtruded itself where 
politics seemed to ijredominate. 

The object of the Grand Army of the Republic is mainly chari- 
table,— looking to the Widows and Orphans of dead comrades of the late 
war. and to perpetuate the memory and history of the Nation's dead. 

It also inculcates fidelity to our Government, and resjject for the 
Constitution and Laws, and the spread of the divine principle of 
Liberty among all men. 

The members of the Grand Army of the Republic have sought to 
promote a fraternal feeling, as between ex-Soldiers of both Armies ; and 

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154 APPENDIX. 



to this end, have joined heart and liand in an interchange of cour- 
tesies at those beautiful services, held every year, of mutually strewing 
tiowers upon the graves of the American Soldiers. 

HELPING HANDS. 

During the dreadful yellow fever epidemic of 1878, the Joseph A. 
Mower Post was untirinii- in its efforts to relieve the sick and desti- 
tute, and its records show that upwards of S(K) families were assisted by 
the Organization, which disbui'sed .?50t)0 for the purpose. 

AT REST. 

Under the auspices, and through the efforts of this Post of the 
a. A. R., a magnificent monument has been erected in the National 
Cemetery at Chulmette, where so many thousands of Union Soldiers 
are buried. The monument is of elegant design, and is an ornament 
to the Cemetery. 

The following report of the number of interments at the Cemetery, — 
showing the States, number of regiments from each, and number of 
the dead by States or branch of service,— will be of interest : 

Connecticut, 223 men, representing thirteen regiments ; Indiana, 
265 men, forty-three regiments; Illinois, 293 men, fifty regiments; 
Iowa, 149 men, twenty-two regiments ; Kentucky, twenty-two men, 
eight regiments ; Kansas, three men, two regiments; Louisiana, 330 
men, twenty-two regiments; Maine, 631 men, eighteen regiments; 
Massachusetts, 446 men, thirty-one regiments; JNIaryland, twenty-four 
men, one regiment; Michigan, 226 men, six regiments; Minnesota, 
fourteen men, five regiments; Missouri, 1-51 men, twenty-three regi- 
ments ; New Hampshire, 120 men, seven regiments ; New York, 
620 men, forty-four regiments; New Jersey, eight men, two regiments; 
Ohio, 108 men, twenty-three regiments ; Pennsylvania, forty-one men, 
eight regiments ; Rhode Island, sixty-nine men, four regiments; 
Tennessee, fourteen men, four regiments; Texas, nineteen men, two 
regiments ; Vermont, 294 men, six regiments ; Wisconsin, 240 men, 
twenty regiments.— Also, U. S. Army, 396 men, representing twenty- 
three regiments; U. S. Colored Troops, 1670 men, eighty-three regi- 
ments; U. S. Navy, 233 men; Quarter Master Department, sixty-four; 
Commissioned Officers, sixty-seven ; Miscellaneous, 167. — Total of 
Graves known and marked, 6913; unknown and marked, 5279. — 
Total, 12,192. 

Since these data were gathered, many additions have been made to 
the sleepers in Clialmette Cemetery, and the total number of ex-Union 
Officers, Soldiers and Sailors who are " At Rest " there, may safely be 
recorded as 15,000. 

letter from secretary lincoln. 

War Department, i 
Washington, September 28, 1881. / 

Wm. Roy. Ksq., Commander Jos. A. Mower Post No. 1, G. A. R., New Orleans: 

,S7/-.- I have the honor to acknowledge the receijit of your com- 
munication of Sei)tember 23d, in which you request me to transmit to 
Mrs. (larfield the resolutions passed by the members of your Post upon 
the death of her husband, our late President Garfield. 

It will give me pleasure to be the means of informing her of this 
action of your Post, and of sending to her the resolutions as requested. 
I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 

ROBERT T. LINCOLN. 



APPENDIX. 155 

ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA. 



BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION.— LOUISIANA DIVISION. 

In the autumn of 1874, a numl)er of the Louisiana survivors of the 
" Army of Northern Virginia" conceived the idea of organizing an 
Association similar to one tlien in existence in tlie State of Virginia. 
In consequence, a meeting was called to effect an organization, at which 
were present : INIajor E. D. Willett, J. H. Murray, John J. Eitzpatrick, 
R. C. Black, R. INIcLaughlin, Jas. Taylor, David Richards, John Shan- 
non, and a number of others, all old soldiers who had served through- 
out the struggle of four years, under Lee and Jackson. 

To show the intent and purposes of this Organization, tlie following 
document was drawn up and numerously signed: 

" We, whose names are hereunto annexed, having served in the 
Army of Northern Virginia, and being desirous of preserving a 
record of all from Louisiana who participated as ofrtcers and soldiers 
of that organization, in the late war between the United States and 
the Confederate States ; and of collecting and preserving the mater- 
ials from which a truthful history of Louisiana's share in that strug- 
gle may hereafter be prepared ; and wishing also to cherish the ties 
of friendship, and fulfill the duties of charity to the survivors of that 
army, do hereby adopt, for our government, the following constitu- 
tion." 

Many of those who originally took an active part in organizing 
the Association have, in the words of the immortal Stonewall Jackson : 
" Passed over the riv^er and rest under the shade of the trees." 

FIKST OFFICERS. 

The first Board of Officers regularly elected consisted of : 

E. D. Willett, President; A. Brady, First Vice President; W. M. 
Owen, Second Vice President; W. H. Manning, Third Vice President ; 
H. Kapman, Treasurer; John H. Murray, Recording Secretary; John 
J. Eitzpatrick, Corresponding Secretary. 

Subsequently, the Association obtained from the State of Louisiana 
a charter, under which it now operates. 

It would be well here to state that there are two subjects that can 
not come up for discussion at the meetings of the Association, namely : 
Polities and Religion. 

The Association comprises among its members survivors of the fol- 
lowing commands that served in Virginia from 1861 to 1865, to-wit : 

First Louisiana Regiment, Volunteers ; Second Louisiana Regi- 
ment, Volunteers ; Fifth Louisiana Regiment, Volunteers ; Sixth Louis- 
iana Regiment, Volunteers ; Seventh Louisiana Regiment, Volun- 
teers; Eighth Louisiana Regiment, Volunteers; Ninth Louisiana 
Regiment, Volunteers; Tenth Louisiana Regiment, Volunteers; Four- 
teenth Louisiana Regiment, Volunteers ; Fifteenth Louisiana Regi- 
ment, Volunteers ; Wheat's Battalion ; the Louisiana Zouave Battalion ; 
the Louisiana Guard Battery, the Donaldsonville Cannoneers, the 
Madison Tips Artillery, and the Washington Battalion of Artillery. 

There are also a nuinber of those who served with honor and credit, 
from Virginia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Arkansas and Texas, and 
who are now permanent residents of the State of Louisiana. 



15G APPENDIX. 



THE GOOD WORK DONE. 

The Association can show as tangible proofs of its usefulness 
during its existence : Tlie burial of over forty of its deceased members, 
and the expenditure of nearly $8000 for relief for its members and 
tiioir families. — Also, tlie erection of a tomb in the Metairie Cemetery, 
surmounted by an heroic-size statue of the illustrious StonewallJackson, 
and callable oi" covering tlie remains of hundreds, if need be. The cost 
of the tomb, monument, and statue was over $12,000. 

HOW GOVERNED. 

The Officers and Committees, in September, 1881, at the date of 
President Garfield's funeral, were as follows: 

Officers.— John B. Richardson, President; Wm. R. Lyman, First 
Vice President; liOuis Prados, Second Vice President; J. Moore 
Wilson, Third Vice President; N. J. Hoey, Fourth Vice President; 
Jno. F. Wax, Fifth Vice President; Jno. H. Murray, Treasurer; Jno. 
J. Fitzpatrick, Recording Secretary ; Fred. A. Ober, Financial and 
Corresponding Secretary ; Dr. Frank L. Taney, Surgeon; Rev. Father 
Darius Hubert, Chaplain ; E. D. Willett, Honorary President. 

Executive Committee. — H. Dudley Coleman, Pat. Hays, Thos. D. 
Davieson, J. S. Bradley, Jno. S. Mioton. 

Finance Committee. — J. Moore Wilson, Jno. W. Emmett, F. F. 
Case. 

Relief Committee. — David R. Calder, Hy. C. Mackie, Jno. T. 
Black, J. T. Purvis, Jno. P. Barnard. 

Tomb and Monumental Committee (special and permanent). — 
Wm. R. Lyman, Chairman ; Jas. Buekner, Jno. H. Murray, J. B. 
Sinnott, I. L. Lj'ons, L. A. Adam. 

FLORAL OFFERINGS. 

The Association has, for some years,— as with the other ex-Con- 
federate organizations in the city — placed floral and other elegant 
offerings upon the graves of the Federal dead at Chalmette Cemetery, 
at the annual ceremonies there under the ausiDices of the Grand Army 
of the Republic. 

STONEWALL JACKSON. 

One of tlie most notable events in the history of the Association 
was tlie dedication in the spring of 1881, of its tomb and monument in 
iSIetairie Cemetery, and the unveiling of the statue of Stonewall Jack- 
son, that crownsthe lofty column. Mrs. Jackson and her Daughter were 
present, by special invitation, and to Miss Julia Jackson was assigned 
the duty of pulling the cord that removed the veil from the statue. 
Tliousands of spectators witnessed the deeply interesting scene. 
Among them were the members of the Benevolent Association of the 
Army of Tennessee, many ex-Federal veterans, as invited guests; 
and, as a guard of honor, at tlie foot of the column, a dozen or more 
of Louisiana soldiers, who had been through the war, in Virginia, and 
every man of tlieni wounded. 

Mr. Lyman made the presentation speech for his Committee ; 
Col. .Jolin B. Iticliardson <Ielivered the reply; Mr. Edwin Marks read 
a beautiful poem, written for the occasion by " Xai'ifla " (Mrs. Town- 
send); Father Hubert, tlie Chaplain of the Louisiana regiments in 
Virginia, prayed ; Gen. Fitz Hugh Lee, of Virginia (a nephew of 



rHERN ] 

I, 1881. J 



Robert E. Lee), one of Stuart's chief officers, delivered an admirable 
oration ; and, in response to a i!;eneral call, tiie Hon. Jefler.son Davis 
made a short address, in wliicli he paid a most feeling and glowing 
tribute to Stonewall Jackson, not only as the warrior, but the man and 
the patriot. 

CONDOIjKNCE. 

When the news of President Garfield's death was received, the 
Association met, and the following message was sent to Wasliington : 

Headquarters, Veterans Army of Northern 
Virginia, Louisiana Division. 

New Orleans, September 21, 

Hon.. lames G. Blaine, Secretary of State, Washington: 

"With feelings of earnest sympathy, unalloyed and pure, the 
" material composing the remnant of Louisiana's quota to the Virginia 
" army of the late Confederate States, with bowed heads and loyal, 
" weeping hearts, stand around the bier ol the- President, and tender 
" to his God fearing, stricken Widow all human consolation." 

Jno. B. Richardson, President. 

Jno. J. Fitzpatrick, Recording Secretary. 

the reply. 
The Secretary promptly responded : 

Washington, D. C, September 22, 1881. 

Jno. B. Ricliardson, President Veterans Army of Virginia, New Orleans: 

" In the name of the W^idow and family of our late President, and 
" in behalf of the Government, I return grateful thanks for your 
'' eloquent message of sympathy in this hour of universal grief." 

James G. Blaine, Secretary of State. 



ARMY OF TENNESSEE. 



BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION— LOUISIANA DIVISION. 

This Association was organized in New Orleans, under the fol- 
lowing auspices : 

On the 8th of May, 1877, at the instance of Capt. Jas. Lingan, a 
meeting of the Survivors of the " Army of Tennessee " was held at 
Hawkins' Club Rooms. The meeting was called to order by Capt. 
Lingan ; Hon. B. F. Jonas was elected Chairman ^jro tern., and Capt. 
Frank L. Richardson, Secretary. 

On motion of Capt. E. John Ellis that all present sign the roll, 
forty-five names were subscribed. 

A Committee on Membership and Credentials was then appointed, 
as follows : Capt. Jas. Lingan, of Austin's Battalion ; Col. Wm. Huger, 



158 APPENDIX. 



First Louisiana Regulars ; Col. David Urquhart, Staff; Wm. H. 
Holmes, of First Louisiana Cavalry ; John Augustin, of Fenner's Bat- 
tery ; A. Boisl)Uin(', of Bridges' Battery; Eugene May, of Fifth Com- 
l)any Washington Artillery ; Chas. Vautier, of Pointe Coupee Battery ; 
H. C. Brown, of Dreux' Louisiana Cavalry; Dr. S. R. Chambers, Sur- 
geon ; J. R A. Gauthreaux, of Fourth Louisiana Infantry ; V. Alli- 
son, of Thirteenth Ijouisiana Infantry ; Philip Munch, of Twenty-Sec- 
ond Louisiana Infantry ; J. A. Luiiiinais, of Thirty-First Louisiana 
Infantry ;— Dan. Curran, of Third Mississippi, and D. O. Harkins, 
of Seventh Missouri regiments. 

A Committee on Constitution and By-Laws was appointed : Major 
John E. Austin, Chairman; Jas. Lingan, E. John Ellis, Leon Ber- 
toli, John C. Golding. 

FIRST OFFICERS. 

On Tuesday, May 14th, 1877, the Credentials Committee reported 
favorably on one hundred and five names of applicants for membership. 

The Committee appointed for the purpose reported a Constitution 
and By-Laws, which were adopted- 

A jjermanent organization was then effected by the election of 
(ien. G. T. Beauregard as President; Captain James Lingan, First 
Vice President ; Major J. E. Austin, Second Vice President; Captain 
Chas. E. Fenner, Third Vice President. 

The organization was completed by the election, on the 25th of 
May, of John C. Golding as Recording Secretary ; Major N. T. N. 
Robinson, Corresponding Secretary ; andS. D. Stockman, Treasurer. 

At a meeting held January 11th, 1878, the Hon. Jefferson Davis 
was elected an Honorary Member of the Association ; a special cer- 
tificate of membership and a gold badge were voted him ; and Captain 
•John Augustin, Dr. Warren Stone and Victor Olivier, Jr., were 
appointed the Conunittee to make the presentation to Mr. Davis. 

A similar certificate of membership and badge, were also voted to 
Gen. G. T. Beauregard. 

SECOND YEAR. 

At the annual meeting, held May 14th, 1878, the following Officers 
were elected to serve for one year : Captain James Lingan, President ; 
Col. Augustus Reichard, First Vice President; Capt. John Augustin, 
Second X^ice President ; Capt. J. A. Chalaron, Third Vice President ; 
John C. Golding, Recording Secretary ; N. T. N. Robinson, Corres- 
l)onding Secretary, and S. D. Stockman, Treasurer. 

The terrible yellow fever epidemic of 1878, which carried so many 
tliousands to untimely graves and produced so much suffering, not 
only from sickness but privation, found the Officers and Members of 
the Association as prompt, courageous and persevering in meeting the 
trials and dangers of peace as they had been those of war. 

Early in September, a special meeting was called to adopt a plan 
of ( liarital)le work, and the following Relief Committee was appointed, 
on behalf of the Association : Messrs. G. A. Williams, J. A. Chalaron, 
l^'raiik 1j. Ricliardson, Victor Olivier, Jr., H. N. Jenkins, Isaac 
Sclierck, and Frank llerron. The Chairman was Col. Augustus 
Heicliard, Acting President. 

Tiie Committee did noble service, not only in helping the Mem- 
IjerM of the Association who required assistance, but many others 
whom they found in sickness and distress. 



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LEGALLY INCOKPOKATKP. 

On the 31st of March, 1879, the Association secnred n charter, 
under the general law of the State, and then elected tiie following 
Oflicers, under the charter: Col. Augustus lieichard. President; 
P"'rank L. Kicluirdson, First Vice President; Jolm Augustin, Srcond 
Vice President; William IMerce, Third Vice President; K. H. lirunet, 
Jr., Recording Secretary; Joseph Collins, Corresponding Secretary; 
A. Boisblanc, Financial Secretary; S. D. Stockman, Treasurer; and 
Dr. A. R. Gourrier, Pliysi(;ian. 

In the Summer of 1879, during a renewed visitation of yellow 
fever, the Association lost b.y that disease one of its most distinguished 
members, the gallant General John B. Hood. 

FIFTH YKAK. 

The election of Officers, to serve for the year 1S8), took place 
January 11th, and resulted as follows: J. A. Clialaron, President; 
.lohn Augustin, First Vice President; H. N. Jenkins, Second Vice 
President ; A. J. Lewis, Third Vice President ; Jos. D. Taylor, Record- 
ing Secretary ; p]ugene May, Corresponding Secretary; A. Boisl)hinc, 
Financial Secretary ; S. D. Stockman, Treasurer ; Dr. Y. R. LeMon- 
nier. Physician. 

It will be seen that Mr. Stockman has been Treasurer of the Asso- 
ciation ever since its organization. 

In the Spring of 1881, the Association saw with sincere regret the 
departure for Europe, to reside there permanently, of Col. A. Reichard, 
one of our most esteemed citizens and merchants, and one of the most 
accomplished staff-officers, during the war, of the Army of Tennessee. 
His old comrades did not fail to appropriately testify their regard 
and affection for him. 

MILITARY RECORD. 

The origin of the Army of Tennessee dates, it may be correctly 
stated, from the 3d and 4th of September. 1801, when Gen. Leonidas 
Polk occupied Hickman and Columbus, Ky. 

On the 7th of November following, the Army of Tennessee, under 
Gen. Polk, had its baptism of fire and won its first laurels, in the Bat- 
tle of Belmont, 

On the 10th of September, 1861, the whole of the Confederate forces 
in the field, not only in Tennessee, but in Missouri, Arkansas and the 
Indian Nation, were concentrated into the " I^epartment of the West," 
and placed under the command of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston. 
Ere long. Gen. Beauregard was sent out from Virginia and had a 
special district assigned him, of Mississippi, Western Tennessee, the 
banks of the Mississippi, etc; but, substantially, the Army of Tennes- 
see was, until the close of the war, the pivot of the leading military 
operations of the Confederacy outside of Virginia. 

The burdens of the war fell heavily upon the officers and men, who 
were ill provided, throughout, with ord)iance, commissary and quar- 
termaster supplies. But they were never lacking in the highest (luali- 
ties of the patriotic soldier ; and the record of that Army is one that 
cannot be contemplated without admiration and sympathy. Their 
achievements in a long list of bloody battles will ever be held in 
honored remembrance. Their stout, brave and thoroughly ecjuipped 
foes did not withhold from them the meed of praise that gallant and 



160 APPENDIX. 



chivalric warriors ever render to equally gallant and chivalric 
opponents. 

And it is in tliis fine spirit that the Survivors of both armies have 
met in New Orleans since tlie war, — especially on those anniversaries 
when the dead soldiers of both sides are remembered and honored. 

In these exchanges of soldierly and manly courtesy and good 
feeling, the Bexkvolent Association of the Army of Tennessee, — 
Louisiana Division — have been in the frontline, along with their ex- 
Confederate brethren, and, on tlie other side, with the Veterans of the 
Grand Army of the Republic. 

THE survivors 

Of the four years' war, who compose the Louisiana Division of the 
Benevolent Association, Army of Tennessee, are over three 
liundred in number, and represent the following commands : 

Austin's Battalion ; Fir§t Louisiana Infantry ; Third Louisiana 
Regiment; Fourth Louisiana; Seventh Louisiana; Eighth Louisiana ; 
Eleventh Louisiana ; Twelfth Louisiana; Thirteenth Louisiana ;_Six- 
teenth Louisiana ; Eighteenth Louisiana : Twentieth Louisiana ; 
Twenty-First Louisiana; Twenty-Second Louisiana; Twenty-Fifth 
Louisiana: Twenty Eighth Louisiana; Thirtieth Louisiana; Thirty- 
First Louisiana; the Crescent Regiment; the Chalmette Regiment; 
Miles' Louisiana Legion. 

Dreux' Louisiana Cavalry ; Scott's Louisiana Cavalry ; First Lou- 
isiana Cavalry; Second Louisiana Cavalry; Fourth Louisiana Cav- 
alry ; Leeds' Light Horse; Orleans Light Horse. 

The Fifth (Slocomb's) Company, Washington Artillery ; First Lou- 
isiana Artillery, regulars; Crescent Artillery ; Louisiana Guards Artil- 
lery ; Bridges' Louisiana Battery ; Pointe Coupee Battery ; Orleans 
(Juards Battery; Fenner's Battery; Gibson's Battery; Blanchard's 
Artillery ; Semmes' Battery ; Hohnes' Battery ; Ferguson's Battery ; 
Dent's Battery ; Ralston 's Battery; Watson's Battery ; Wither's Light 
Artillery ; Ketcluim's Alabama Battery ; Hannibal Flying Artillery.— 
The Engineer Corps. 

The Quitman Rifles, Texas.— The Virginia Military Cadets.— 
The First and Seventh Missouri Infantry Regiments.— The Twentv- 
Third Reginient Arkan.sas Infantry.— The One Hundred and Fifty- 
Fourth Regiment Tennessee Volunteers.— The First Alabama Cav- 
alry ; Twenty-First Regiment Alabama Infantry ; The Third, Tenth, 
Twentietii and Twenty-Seventh Regiments Mississippi Infantry. — 
The Fourtii Regiment Mississippi Cavalry.— Govan's Brigade ; 
Featherstonc's iirigade. 

RESOEUTIONS OF ONDOLENCE. 

On the evening of Wednesday, September 21st, the Association 
iield a special meeting, Capt. John Augustin, Acting President, in the 
chair. 

The P^xecutive Committee were requested to draw up a set of reso- 
lutions expressive of the regret of the Association at the death of Presi- 
dent Garfield. 

The Committee soon after presented the following : 



APPENDIX. 1()1 



Headquarters Association, ] 

AR3IY OK Tknnksskk— Louisiana Division, l 

New Orleans, Hei)teuibor 21, 1881. j 

" There are epochs in the lives of nations whose special features 
are of such an elevated character— strongly exemplifying the true, 
pure and good among tlie ])copk'— tluit it becomes theduty of all think- 
ing citizens to raise a voice in attestation and point out to the world 
the lesson and the example. 

"The peculiar circumstances which have surrounded the assassina- 
tion, prolonged sufl'erings and death of the late Presidentof the United 
iStates, resplend amid the gloom of the surroundings with brilliant 
manifestations of dauntless and patient courage on one side : devotion 
to law and order and abiding faith in the wisdom of our institutions 
on the other hand. 

" For nearly three months the Head of the ( Commonwealth, stricken 
by the bullet of a fanatic assassin, has remained helpless and undirect- 
ing, yet not a hand has been raised to seize the Government, not an 
ambitious whisper has disturbed the serene solemnity of the death 
room. This is a sublime example ! 

" In view of this admirable conduct of a great people stricken in a 
vital part,— of the heroic fortitude of the martyr whose sufferings and 
death have served to bring out in dazzling relief all that is grand and 
noble in American hearts, — We, the Members of the Association of the 
Army of Tennessee, of the late Confederate States, Louisiana Division, 
specially assembled, do hereby express our regrets upon the death of 
the late President James A. Garfield, our admiration for his valorous 
record as a Soldier of the Union, and for his patient endurance during 
such long and painful sufferings. Our hearts go out in condolence 
with his brave, Christian widow and bereaved family, whose grief we 
would alleviate by these expressions of our tender sympathy." 

John Augustin, 

First Vice President and Chairman. 
H. N. Jenkins, Second Vice President. 
' A. J. Lewis. Third Vice President. 

Eugene May, Corresponding Secretary. 
J. D. Taylor, Recording Secretary. 
A. BoiSBLANC, Financial Secretary. 
S. D. Stockman, Treasurer. 

IN ACKNOWLEDGMENT. 

The reply to the above was from Mrs. Garfleld,- through her dead 
husband's old and devoted friend. Col. Rockwell : 

Mentor, Ohio, November -5, 1881. 

John Augustin, Esq., First Vice President Army of Tennessee, New Orleans, La.: 

" Dear Sh- : — Mrs. Garfield directs me to acknowledge the receipt, 
through Mr. Secretary Hunt, of the resolutions of the Association of 
the Army of Tennessee. You will please to accept her sincere thanks 
and convey the same to the Association of which you are the Chair- 
man." " Very truly your's, 

C. C. ROCKWELL, 

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THE MEXICAN WAR VETERANS. 



WHAT LOUISIANA DID IN 1846-47. 

Tlie stale of Louisiana furnishert fully 10,000 men for the war with 
]\rexieo. Tliere were, first, the six infantry regiments and tlie bat- 
talion of artillery that volunteered in response to the call of the vet- 
eran Maj. Genl. Gaines, IT. S. A.,— eonmianding in this Department— 
for men to go to the immediate hel]) of the beleaguered Genl. Taylor, 
on the Rio Grande. This fine brigade was placed under the command 
of that well-known New Orleanian, — an accomplished and jDublic 
sjiirited citizen and excellent volunteer otRcer, who had seen service 
in Florida, — Genl. Persifor F. Smith. 

These six infantry regiments were : the First or Washington Eeg- 
inient, under Col. J. !>. Walton and Lieut. Col. Henry Foi-no; the 
Second, Col. James H. Dakin and Lieut. Col. Emerson ; the Third, 
or Jackson Regiment, Col. Samuel F. Marks and Lieut. Col. Theodore 
(J.Hunt; the Fourth, or Montezuma Regiment, Col. Horatio Davis; 
the Fifth Regiment, Col. Peyton; the Sixth Regiment, Col. (). 
Featherstonaugh. 

The Orleans Artillery Battalion, under the veteran Major Gaily 
(an ex-French army officer), was mustered in on the Place cVArmea, 
with full ranks; and was at once sent to Fort Jackson and Fort St. 
Phillip to relieve the Regulars, there on duty. 

The tirst three infantry regiments were raised in New Orleans in 
a few days after the receipt of the news, by Genl. Gaines, — it was on 
the 3d of May, 1846— that Genl. Taylor, wlio had marched, by Presi- 
dent Polk's orders, from Corpus Christi to the Lower Rio Grande, and 
encamped where Brownsville now is, was surrounded and threatened 
with destruction by an overMdielming Mexican force. — Col. J. B. 
Walton landed his regiment at Point Isabel, on the morningof the Kith 
of ]May ; and Col. S. F. jNIarks, with his regiment, on the 17th of May. 
(^uick work and gallant work ! 

No one who witnessed it, can ever forget the intense excitement 
the news from Taylor, and the rapid organization and departure of 
the force for his succor, created in this city. The popular feeling was 
at fever heat. It was even more intensely excited when the news 
came soon afterwards, that "Old Rough and Ready" had fought two 
desperate battles with the strong and well appointed Mexican Army, 
and was the victor in both. 

fjouisiana's six regiments were not permitted, however, to remain 
in Mexico their full six months, as Genl. Gaines had mistaken the 
law, which I'cquired them to enlist for either three months or the war. 
But, whilst in con.sequence, many of the officers and men came back, 
enough remained on the Rio Grande to form two full regiments of 
infantry, under Col. DeRusseyand Col. W. Biscoe, and three battalions 
under Major Fiasco, Major Girault, and ]\[ajor Besanyon, who re- 
mained in the service. Col. Marks, Maj. Dupi^ru, Capt. Copeland S. 
Hunt, and many other Officers of the First Louisiana Brigade also 
entered the service for the war. Col. Walton was tendered a position 
on headquarters staff, and was with Gen. Scott to the triumphant 
peace. 

Capt. A. G. Blanchard, of this city, had raised the " Phoenix Coni- 
|)any" on the Rio (Jrande, when the'lirigade was ordered home. His 



Lieutenant was Wni. Tenbrink. Capt. lilancliard was afterwards 
assigned to the Twelfth U. S. Infantry as its Major. The " Phfenix " 
men did ^ood service at tlie farnous battles of Monterey and Buena 
Vista, anil afterwards with Scott's Army. 

When the President, soon after the war l)e<i;an, called for Louisiana's 
(luota of troojis to form the new ten renuiar infantry ref:;iments 
authorized bv Conj>ress, the State and City promptly resitonded. One 
of the oflElcers she sent to the field in one of tiiese regiments, was Lieut. 
Col. Paul O. Hebert, a West l\)int Ki''»<luate; then State engineer; 
after the war (loveruor of Louisiana, and then a Brigadier (:}eneral in 
the Confederate Army. He died last year. He distinguished himself 
in Scott's battles.— Another very distinguislied Louisiana officer, just 
from West Point, was Lieut, (t. T. Beauregard. 

The Louisiana men were considered as proof against yellow fever, 
and were consequently nearly all used for detatched service at Vera 
Cruz, Tampieo, and other exposed points. For this reason chietiy, the 
State and her Soldiery have never had justice done them in the his- 
tories of the JNIexican War. 

PERSONAL, MENTION. 

Col. Walton is still hale and hearty, after going through the 
great civil war as commander of the AVashington Artillery,— Col. Jas. 
H. Dakin, who was the architect of tlie old Verandah Hotel, the 
Custom House, the State House at Baton Rouge, and other tine edifi- 
ces, died in 1852,— Col. H. *'orno, well known in the olden time as 
Chief of Police of the Second Municipality, served with distinction 
with the Louisiana troops under Jackson and Lee, and died after the 
war from the results of a railroad accident,— Col. Emerson was Judge 
of one of our District Courts up to within a few years ago, since when, 
he, too, has passed away,— Col. S. F. Marks was Postmaster in New 
Orleans, and then commanded the 11th Louisiana in the battles of 
Belmont and Shiloh,— Col. T. G. Hunt was Judge of the Criminal 
Court in this city for many years ; distinguished himself during the 
late war, flrst at the head of the Fifth Louisiana Infantry ; and rose 
to be a Brigadier General. He is still practicing law here. 

The subsequent history of the other officers mentioned cannot be 
given, exce]it that Major Gaily died many years ago ; that Capt. Ten- 
brink died here a few years ago ; that Major A. G. Blanchard rose to 
be a Confederate Brigadier General during the late war, and is now 
practicing here his profession of civil engineering; and that Major 
Girault, after serving on the Confederate Stafi; has been for many 
years the esteemed Rector of St. Anna's Episcopal Church in this city. 

Gen. Persifor F. Smith, who won a brilliant reputation during 
the Mexican War, remained in the regular army, and died many years 
ago at San Antonio, whilst in command in Texas. His son. Dr. How- 
ard Smith, still one of our leading physicians, was one of the chief 
Confederate medical purveyors. 

THE veterans' ASSOCIATION. 

The Louisiana Association of the " Mexican War Veterans" 
was organized August isth, 1878, with about one hundred and fifty 
veterans present. Gen. Harry T. Hays,— who, when quite young, had 
served in his brother Jack Hays' Texas Rangers, in Mexico, and 
then commanded a Louisiana brigade under Jackson and Lee,— was 
elected President, and J. Benjamin Chandler, of this city. Secretary. 



164 APPENDIX. 



Capt. Will. Tenbriiik was elected President in 1876. In 1878, 
Capt. John Purecll, wlio still looks as if he could go through a hard 
('aiui)aigii, was elected President, and Richard Lambert, — one of our 
leailing Masonic oHicers — was chosen Secretary. He was re-elected in 
ISTit, when Col. J. B. Walton was elected President. At the last annual 
election. Col. Walton was re-elected; R. Lambert was elected First 
Vice President; James E- Bissell, Second Vice President; George 
Swarbriclv, a well known merchant, Secretary ; J. M. VandegrifF 
(so long one of the officers of the Howard Association), Treasurer ; 
and G. Lyman, Marshal. The Delegates to the National Convention 
are Mr. Kichard Lambert and Cajit. John Purcell. 

JEFFERSON DAVIS AND THE VETERANS. 

In February, 1876, Hon. Jefferson Davis— himself a distinguished 
Officer of the Mexican War, — was invited by the Association to deliver 
an address "On the Mexican War and its Results." Mr. Davis at 
once accepted, the object being to assist the Association's relief fund. 
The Address was delivered Wednesday evening, March 5th, in the 
Exposition Hall. 

The Decoration Committee were : Harris Parsons, Chairman ; J. 
E. Bissell, N. G. Gunnegle, Henry Roberts, E. H. Burton, Henr^^ 
MeVey, C H. Forno, and Geo. Kiernan. The Ladies' Reception Com- 
mittee w^ere : J. W. Demarest, Chairman ; S. H. Levy, A. B. Mitchell, 
J. E. Boehler, W. H. Toler, J. A. Letten, and John Bielick. The 
Speaker's Reception Committee were : Geii. A. G. Blanchard, Chair- 
man ; W. W. Carr^, David C Labatt, E. H. Burton, W. Hyllested, and 
J. M. Vandegriff. 

When the Speaker, escorted by his Committee, entered the spaci- 
ous Hall, it was crowded with an audience representing the elite of 
New Orleans, not only in fashion but in intellect and culture. Presi- 
dent Tenbrink received the Speaker and led him to the platform, fol- 
lowed by the officers and members of the Association, under Capt. 
John Purcell, First Vice President. 

The platform was covered with a vast tent, formed of American flags. 
By Capt. Purcell's command the front flags fell and disclosed to view a 
striking tableau ; the Speaker seated in the centre-front, the Officers and 
Receptif)!! Committee on either side, the Veterans massed behind 
them, a stack of muskets and a cannon on the corners. On the cano^^y 
bung tlie Association's motto : " Our Country ! Right or Wrong, Our 
Country."— And beneath, the names of the thirteen battles and sieges, 
in Mexico, that had given fame to Taylor and Scott. 

The speaker was recognized by fourteen of the Veterans as Col. 
Jeff Davis, commander of their Regiment, the famous First Missis- 
sippi Rilles, at Buena Vista. 

Mr. Davis' address was brief; but those who have heard him 
s])eak, know liow felicitously he handles a subject, in a style remark- 
able for its simplicity, lucidity and point. His remarks to the Veter- 
ans around him were very touching. 

MEMBERS. 

Tlif following is a list of the Officers and Members of the Associa- 
tion iji the only printed list at our disposal, published in March, 
l^Ti; : 

(Jllicers— Cai)t. Wm. Tenbrink, President; Capt. John Purcell, 
First Vice President ; Cai)t. J. E. Boehler, Second Vice President ; 



Private J. Benj. Chandler, Secretary ; Capt. J. M. VandegrifF, Treas- 
urer; Sergeant J. W. Deniarest, Marshal. 

Members — J. G. Aubry, Kd. Allinghani, James E. Bissell, 
E. H. Burton, John M. Braun. Fred. C. Jiley, (ieo. Baldy, John 
Bielick, George Boydel, J. M. Clarke, J. S. (Camden, Jame.s Clark, 
W. W. Carr6, C. M. Emerson, C. H. Forno, W. J. Freeman, Justhi 
Fremaux, Wm. Greeb, Hubert Gerard, Frank B. ({illen, N. G. Gun- 
negle, John B. Greseneur, G. Mason Graham, John Hobsen, P. O. 
Hubert, D. M. Heard, R. A. Harris, B. F. Hughes, W. Hyllested, 
Joseph Hadley, John C. Hood, R. O. Jones, Peter Jones, Geo. Kier- 
nan, F. A. Keszel, John A. Letten, David C. Labatt, S. H. Levy, 
Patrick Lally, Adam Loose, Richard Lambert. H. R. McVey, John 
McManus, W. H. McLorinan, J. H. Mehafley, Adolph Meynuer, 
Sam'l McLellan, Wm. F. McLean, M. B. JNIcGary, John McKay, A. 
B. Mitchell, P. W- Ott, Anthony Pecora, Steven F. Power, Henry 
Post, Eugene Paysant, Jacob Rice, J. p]. Reiter, Henry Roberts, 
Henry Simon, Robert Simmons, J. E. Stafford, M. Stifft, Nicholas 
Schwab, James Skelly, H. W. Swan, A. C. Thorn, F. Thaller, Henry 
Tauger, W. H. Toler, Daniel Thorn, Nicholas Turner, John Woodburn, 
Geo. Weightman, Mrs. Widow M. E. Wolf, and Geo. O. Wilkinson. 

The Honorarj^ Members were ; Gen. W. H. Emory, U. S. A. ; 
Gen. C. C. Augur, U. S. A. ; Gen. A. Beckwith, U. S- A. ; Hon. Jeffer- 
son Davis, Gen. H. T. Hays, Gen. A. G. Blanchard, Col. J. B. Deason, 
and Col. AV. H. Torrence. 

Since this list was printed, Judge C. M. Emerson, Henry Roberts, 
A. B. Mitchell, W. W. Carr^, A. C. Thorn, S. H. Levy, G. H. Mehaf- 
fey, John McManus, Capt. Boehler, Capt. Wm. Tenbrink, Gen. P, O. 
Hubert and Gen. H. T. Hays have died. 



THE CONTINENTAL GUARDS. 



THEIR FIRST APPEARANCE. 

The writer remembers as if it were yesterday, the first appearance 
of this famous command on the streets of New Orleans. The organiza- 
tion of the Guards had been going on for some months, commencing 
in November, 1854 ; and their first parade was very approjjriately, on 
the anniversary of Washington's birthday, the 22d of February, 1855. 

The anniversary was then always celebrated in New Orleans by a 
general display of our numerous military organizations— infantry, 
artillery and cavalry — and there was much rivalry among them as to 
which should turn out the most men, and present the most martial 
appearance. Tlie streets were filled with admiring crowds on the date 
mentioned ; and when in the forenoon the Continentals marched 
from their Armory down Camp street to C'anal, the excitement they 
Ijreated was instantaneous and wide-spread. They marched well ; and 
their picturesque uniform, — recalling so vividly the days that tried 



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men's souls — elicited universal admiration. Hearty cheers, waving of 
liats and handkerchiefs, and repeated clapping of hands greeted them 
from all sides. Tiieir march was a triumph. Capt. Chas. A. Labuzan 
was in command, with iSaniuel M. Todd, (a Mobile veteran), as his 
First, and Jas A- Hopkins as his 8econd Lieutenant. The band was 
an excellent one, and the stars and striiJes were borne aloft by Ensign 
(Mias. (r. Chesley. The Guards marched up St. Charles street into 
Lafayette Square— the scene of so man'y brilliant military gatherings — 
and were received l)y Gen. E. L. Tracy's Brigade, consisting of that fine 
infantry regiment, tiie National Guards; the Washington Artillery, 
('ajit. J. B. Walton ; and the Horse Guards. Tlie Continkntals were 
received into tlie Brigade with due military honors, and then the col- 
umn marclied tiirough the city to Bouligny, where a grand dress parade 
was hchl. 

OLD FKIENDS. 

The roster of the Guards at that date was as follows : 

Officers : Captain, Charles A. Labuzan ; First Lieutenant, Sam- 
uel M. Todd ; Second Lieutenant, James A. Hopkins ; Orderly Ser- 
geant, John Connell ; Second Sergeant, Wm. Inslee ; Third Sergeant, 
Robert Little ; Fourth Sergeant, Thf)s. M. Burney ; First Corporal, W. 
F. Hodgkins ; Second Corporal, Thos. W. Dick ; Third Corporal, Jas. 
Davis ; Fourth Corporal, Sam'l F. Rice ; Ensign, Chas. G. Chesley ; 
Secretary, Chas. Callahan ; Treasurer, Samuel G. Risk. 

Privates : Thos. Askew, G. W. Andrews, J. G. Bates, B. T. K. 
Bennett, Henry Bidwell, A. P. Bennett, N. B. Baker, Henry Bier, 
J. W. Brigham, A. W. Bosworth, George Clarke, E. Cox,- John 
Cottle, Jos. S. Clark, M. Carvin, W. W. Carre, John I. Daniels, A. 
Donnaud, C. V. Diamond, David H. Fowler, Peter Forshee, J. M. 
Forgay, H. Fassman, George Graham, J. L. Gubernator, Louis Gag- 
net, Chas. W. Gould, T. Greenfield, H. S. HiJl, L. B. Home, Chas. E. 
Hall, Robert Howes, H. D. Hewitt, B. W. Hebrard, P. A. Hebrard, 
Thos. F. Hedges, Chas. V. Jont6, L. A. Kirk, T. R. Longtield, W. T. 
IjOgan, F. A. Lumsden, John Leslie, Jr., C W. Lytle, John B. Leefe, 
Jas. Martin, Francis Martin, Thos. McLellan, J. E. McClure, Wm. 
Mish, John McDonnell, R. M. Montgomery, A. W. Merriam, Thos. 
(t. Mackie, B. Miller, Thomas Murray, E. L. C. McKean, J. S. Mcln- 
tire, Jas. McCIoskey, Jos. Moorehouse, E. McFarland, John McLean, 
Anderson Marsh, J. H. Nicholson, Walter Nicol, Jas. Nimick, Thos. 
C. Poole, George Purves, Jas. Phillips, G. W. Phillips, Wm. Relf, John 
Stroud, Jr., H. H. Stanley, Thos. A. Snow, J. H. Sherman, R. A. 
Slater, Gardner Smith, Wm. Tenbrink, John B. Weir, Richard J. 
Wade, J. S. Washington, J. L. Warner, A. J. Whitmore. 

Markers: Ed.H. Caldwell, W. F. Hodgkins, Jr., Frank S. Lums- 
ddi, W. T. Leefe, H. F. Warner. 

Band-master: Plenry F^berling. — Armorer, Jordan B. Noble, the 
vctt'ran drummer of 1812-15. 

Tlie Honorary Members were: Governor Robert C. Wickliffe ; 
Ex-(;overnor Paul O. Hebert; Mayor John L. Lewis; Major General 
David E. Twiggs, U. S. A.; Brigadier (Jeneral E. L. Tracy, Louisiana 
Militia; Gen'l. M. Grivot, Adjutant and Inspector General, L. M.; 
Col. Wm. Christy, veteran of LS12-15 ; Hon. Gerard Stith, Capt. Henry 
St. Paul, and Messrs Tlios. R. Jirady, Glendy Burke, W. A. Bartlett, 
(ieorge Y. Bright, John M- Chilton, Ben De Bar, Ovide DeBuys, P. 
Deverges, Jas. G. Drummond, Richard Esterbrook, A. Foster Elliot^ 
P. A. Fayssoux, Samuel L. Forgay, Jas. A. Ferguson, John Gale, Wm. 



H. Garland, E. A. Hiorn, Dan. S. Hidvok, J. Morgan Hall, D. M. 
Hildreth, Thos. Hasam, Geortie W. Hynson, Wni. J I. Harrison, K. 
Jacobs, A. Lovison, F. Tj. K. Ludwigsen, J. McLanathan, ('has. W. 
Newton, John K. Owens, Louis H. Pilie, Wni. M. l»erkins. George 
Price, K. T. Parker, L. lieinhardt, Geo. Karesliide, D. I. Hicardo, II. 
II. v^wasey, H. M. Summers, A. B. Heger, K. \V. Sewell, Sidney Story, 
INIark Smith. James Stockton, Henry G. Stetson, Peter Tiiisted, Theo- 
l)hilus Thayer, Isaac Thayer, C M. Waterman, P. C. Wright, and 
Tlieo. Von La Hache. 

Of the Officers and Men, Charles Callahan, Ciias. E. Hall, Thos. 
F. Hedges. F. A. Lumsden, and J. S. Wasliington were on the " Pic- 
ayune."— Col. Lum?den, its founder, was lost, with his wife and only 
child, Frank S., when the steamer Lady Elgin went down in Lake 
Erie in 1860. Genial Charlie Callahan was killed in Nicaragua with 
Walker. The veteran John S. Washington, marine reporter, died 
since the war. C E. Hall and T. F. Hedges, good men and true, are 
still Setting type on the " Pic." J. E. McCUure, who had helped to 
found several papers here, was better known as mine host of "Sam's 
Saloon;" Ed. McKean was long connected with the Press; Gerard 
Stith was foreman of the " Pic," Recorder of the Second Municipality, 
and then Mayor; C. M. Waterman became Mayor; and who doe.s not 
know who were Ben De Bar, John E. Owens and Mark Smith? And 
Merriajn, one of the chief spirits, since the war, of Comus' Mystick 
Krewe ! 

To one familiar with the New Orleans of twenty-live years ago, 
thii5 old muster roll recalls a host of incidents and forms and faces,— 
the incidents, long since forgotten : the forms and faces, most of them, 
passed away. The theme is replete with sad reflections to the survi- 
vors ; but the drum beats, and " Away with melancholy, boys !" 

SOME CHANGES. 

In January, 1857, Captain Labuzan resigned, and Lieut. Todd 
commanded until his election as Captain, in the following March. 
His officers were : First Lieutenant, John Connell ; Second Lieuten- 
ant, F. A. Lumsden ; Brevet Lieutenant, Gardner Smith. 

In March, 1859, Capt. Todd was succeeded by George Clark, who, 
meanwhile, had been elected First Lieutenant in place of John Con- 
nell, deceased. Capt. Clark's officers were : First Lieutenant, C. B. 
Hobday ; Second Lieutenant, A. W. Merriam. 

VOLUNTEERING FOR SERVICE. 

In 1861, when the great civil war began, the Continentals, 
under Capt. Clark, in March, formed, with nine other companies, a 
full regiment, under Col. J. B. Gladden, — a veteran of the celebrated 
Palmetto Regiment in the Mexican War, and killed at the head of his 
brigade at Shiloh. The Surgeon of the regiinent was Dr. A. Donnaud. 
The services of the regiment were tendered to the Confederate States 
Government, then at Montgomery, Ala , but they were not accepted ; 
the rule being to receive volunteers only by companies. Tlie Conti- 
nentals' regimental organization was, in conseciuence, dissolved. . 

Soon after, a call was made on Gov. Moore for Louisiana's (piota of 
volunteers. The Continentals, Company A, promptly tendered their 
services for the war, with* one hundred and nine non-commissioned 
officers and privates, and the following officers : Captain, (ieorge 



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Chirk; First liicutenaiit, A. W. Merriam ; Second Lieutenant, E. 
^rrFarlaml ; Junior Second Lieutenant, Aaron Davis. 

OI F TO VIRGINIA. 

(Company A was mustered into service May 22d, 1861; went to 
(•amp Moore, June 1st, to prepare for active service; was mustered 
into the Confederate States service June 7th ; was assigned as " A, Coni- 
pany " to tlie Seventli, or "Pelican" Regiment of Louisiana, under 
Col. Harry T. Hays (brother of the famous Texas Ranger, Jack Hays) ; 
soon after left for Virginia; arrived at Manassas Junction, June 21st, 
1S(>1. and remained in the Army of Northern Virginia until the sur- 
render at Appomatox. 

The Seventh Regiment distinguished itself, especially when in 
Stonewall Jackson's corps. The Continkxtals, Company A., under- 
went many changes, — the usual result of war's trials. Second Lieut. 
McFarland became Captain, and was killed at Sharpsburg ; Lieut. A. 
Davis was killed at I'ort Royal; Licit. Dearie was killed at Mayrie's 
Heights; ^V. P. Thompson became Lieutenant, then Ca})tain, and was 
killed at Gettysburg. Beside these four officers, the Company had 
twenty-four non-commissioned officers and privates killed in battle. 

HOME PROTECTION. 

Immediately after the departure of Company A. for Virginia, those 
of its members who remained in New Orleans' formed Company B., 
with one hundred men on the rolls, oflficered by Win. F. Hodgkins as 
Captain; John F. Jones as First Lieutenant'; A. Donnaud, Second 
Lieutenant, and A. B. Beats, Third Lieutenant. The Company per- 
formed military duty as ' Home Guards' until the Federal forces occu- 
pied the city, in April, 1862, when the command was disbanded. Just 
previous to that date Lieut A. Donnaud died from the results of ex- 
]>osure in camp, and his was the last military funeral had in the city 
under Confederate rule. 

OFF to KENTUC'KY\ 

In July, 1861, Company* C, Continental Guards, was organized, 
with 106 non-commissioned officers and privates, officered by John G. 
Fleming as Captain ; Thomas W. Peyton as First Lieutenant; Frank 
Habin as Second Lieutenant, and Lott M. Zones as third Lieutenant. 

C03IPANY C. was sent to Camp Moore, and assigned as " Company 
1''." of the Eleventh Louisiana Regiment, commanded by Col. Sam. F. 
Marks, a vetei'an of the Mexican war. Ten days after, the Regiment 
was ordered to Columbus, Ky. In November, 1861, it took part in the 
battle of Belmont, and obtained from Gen. Leonidas Polk the credit of 
having turned the tide of battle. The Guards had in this confliet one 
man killed and eight wounded. 

Three days before the battle of Shiloh, Capt. Fleming was ordered 
on special duty to Island No. 10 by Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston. 
First Lieutenant Peyton being on recruiting service in New Orleans, 
Cai)t. F. telegraphed him to return and take command. Lieut. Peyton 
arrived on the field during the second day's battle, and Capt. Fleming 
the following day, resuming the command. In the battle of ShilolT, 
the ( Jlakds lost eight men killed and twenty -seven wounded. Among 
the killed was Lieut. Thomas S. Pierce, "(brother of Capt. Williaiii 
I'iercej who was appointed by Gov. Moore to succeed Lieut. Babin, 
resigned at Columbus iii November, 1861. 



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A NEW COMMAND. 

After the retreat from Corinth to Tupelo, Miss., a reorganizing 
jn-oeess eoninienced as to several regiments; and at ('amp Moccasin, 
on the Tennessee river, opi)()site ("liatlanooga, the gallant Eleventh 
Ijouisiana disa])peared. From its fragments sprang thixt rorj)!< fPr/ife, 
Austin's Sharpshooters, commanded l)y the late INIajor Kd. Austin, of 
New Orleans, who had distinguished himself at Belmont and Shiloh. 
This Battalion was composed of two Companies, and its Company A. 
was the Continiontai. Guahj)S, Company C intact, who selected this 
service from choice. Capt. Fleming having resigned, First Lieut. Pey- 
ton was promoted Captain and Wm. Pierce, Second Lieutenant. 

The Sharpshooters were ever in the front throughout the campaigns 
of the Army of Tennessee, until at the terrible iiattle of Nashville the 
Battalion was literally torn to j)ieces in a tempest of fire. — At the open- 
ing of the battle of' Chikamauga, the Battalion was deployed as a 
skirmishing line, though the two companies were not together. The 
(X)NT1NENTAI;S, under Major Austin, charged and captured a l)attery, 
and held it for half an hour in front of the Federal army until the Con- 
federate main line came up and secured the guns. In this charge, the 
(iUARDS lost one killed and three wounded. Among the latter was 
Lieut. Wm. Pierce, who lost a leg.— It is still, however, a "game leg." 
— Lieut. Pierce had been wounded once before, at the battle of Farming- 
ton, Alay, 1S()2. 

This Company of the Continentals lost,— besides Lieut. Thos. S. 
Pierce, killed at Shiloh,— Lieut. Lott M. Zones, killed at Franklin ; 
Capt. Peyton, killed at Murfreesboro; and forty-seven non-commis- 
sioned officers and privates killed in battle or died from wounds. 

AFTER THE WAR. 

After the termination of the war, in 186.")— military organizations 
not being permitted here— the survivors of Companies A., B., and C, 
formed tiiemselves into a society entitled the " Continental Benevolent 
Association," with Capt. George Clark as I^resident; Lieut. A. W. 
Merriam as Vice President; Capt. Jno. G. Fleming, Secretary, and 
Emanuel BIe.ssey, Treasurer. 

In October, 1875, through the exertions of R. M. Montgomery, 
Wm. Pierce, John G. Fleming, and other members of the Association, 
the present Company A. of the Guards was organized ; and on the 
Hth of January, 1S76, the Continentals once more appeared on the 
streets of New Orleans. — They mustered thirty-six non-commissioned 
officers and i^rivates, and were officered as follows : Captain, Richard 
"Si. Montgoniery; First Lieutenant, William Pierce; Second Lieu- 
tenant, B. H. Watkins ; Junior Second Lieutenant, E. F. Perilloux ; 
Surgeon, J. M. CuUen. 

Fifteen years had passed away — years replete with history — since 
the pictures«|ue old uniform of the days of '76 had last greeted the 
admiring spectator's gaze. It seemed almost as if those years were but a 
dream, or that Time had stood still. 

KIND DEEDS. 

In 1877, the Guards' widely known and highly esteemed com- 
mander, (Japtain Dick Montgomery, died.— His successor. Captain 
William Pierce, a thorough tactician and a strict disciplinarian, has, 
it may justly be said, brought the Continentals up to the highest 



1 70 APPENDIX. 



standard of military merit. — In addition, under his enterprising and 
kindly auspices, they have distinguished themselves by promptly and 
effectively aiding, as a l)()(ly, in all entertainments or other projects, 
the objects of wliich were for benevolent or patriotic purposes. Their 
rule in these matters is well set forth in the following quotation from 
their Conunander's last annual address to them : "Whenever there is 
" a chance to do anything to benefit others, — no matter how appar- 
" ently insignificant it may be — gladly embrace the opiioriunity." 

shakinct hands. 

Tlie Continentals have won for themselves, in addition, a 
national reputation, of which they are justly proud, Ijy their active 
demonstrations, soon after their reorganization, in allaying as far as in 
tbeir power the bitterness and rancor created by the "war and by the 
subsecjuent political processes of ' reconstruction.' In this spirit, wlien 
they reorganized in 1876, they cordially admitted Federal veterans to 
membership with them. A few months after, when the (irand Army 
of the Republic celebrated Decoration Da.v at Chalmette Cemetery, the 
("(jNTiNENTAi^S sent a handsome floral otfering to place on the graves 
of tJie Federal dead.— And one of their commissioned officers served 
in the Federal Army, and is a member of the G. A. R. 

In this same spirit, was undertaken in June, 1880, their excursion 
to Boston, to take part in the one hundred and fourth anniversary 
of the battle of Bunker Hill. They were heartily encouraged anci 
assisted in this by the State and C'ity authorities, by their' brother 
military organizations— by the Lee ]Monumental Association, and by the 
Veterans of the Mexican War, of the Army of Northern Virginia, and 
of the Army of Tennessee, by the Southern Dramatic Club, and, as 
well, by a large number of our most influential citizens. 

at bunker hill. 

They started on this trip— the first of the kind since the war— on 
the 12th of June, taking with them a beautiful silk flag to be presented 
by the City of New Orleans to the City of Boston, and entrusted to 
Secretary of State, Will. A. Strong, with Administrator W. Marks to 
represent our City Authorities. Among the privates were several vol- 
unteer.'*, and among them was Capt. Wm. H. Bean ham, of the Louisiana 
Field Artillery. There were also two colored men, as servants, in grey 
uniform, Thomas Chatham and John Henrv, each of whom had lost a 
leg in the Confederate service : the former at'the battleof Chickanuuma, 
with Austin's Sharpshooters, and Henry, at the battle of (Irenada, 
with tiie Fifteentli Mississippi. 

The reception of this representative New Orleans military com- 
mand in Ikjston was an ovation. Their hosts were the peoj^le of Boston , 
men, women and children. And the participation by the Continen- 
tals, on the 17th of June, 1880, in the celeljration, right in the shadow 
of I'.iinker Hill Momiment, of tbeone hundred and fourth anniversarv 
of Ibf battle, was one of the most memorable events since the close of 
tlie civil war. 

The roll of the Guards which took part in the excursion, was as 
follows: 

Officers,— Capt. Wm. Pierce; First Lieutenant (Jeorge D. Moflfatt ; 
Second I>ieutenant John M. ('ullen. 

Non-Commi.ssioried Officers,— Orderlv Sergeant, W. H. Latham; 



Color Serjieant, J. C. Hood (a veteran of tlie Mexicnii war); Corporal 
J. M Coos; Qartennaster A. Bonuan ; Commissary W. J. Maltby. 

Privates,— T. M. liaker, Win. H. iieaiiliam, Geo. K. Brown, W. J. 
Beirne, Alex. Belcher, E. D. Dean, J. V. Ellis, T. Jobin, Wm. Lacour, 
E. L. Marmion, R. J. INIeNeil, Samuel McNeil, Thos. O'Connor, J, T. 
Pigot, M. R. Pittnian, Wm. E. Pendleton, Walter B. Parker, S. Stem- 
ler, Geo. E. Shepard, Will. A. Strong, J. M. Sherrouse, Thos. Swift, H. 
H, True, J. R. Walton, and D. H. Watkins. 

Drummer,— Geo. W. O'Connor ;— Markers, Walter (irivot, Lewis 
Baker, E. A. Shields, Jr., Wni. Reynolds. 

The hearty, generous greeting extended to them at the North at 
other points than Boston—especially in Buffalo, Toledo, and Chicago, 
—came home to every true-hearted citizen of New Orleans. He felt it 
as a personal expression of good will to him.self. 

AS HOSTS. 

In the same patriotic spirit that prompted this excursion to the 
North, the Continentals asked in February, 1881, for a return visit 
from the Boston Lancers and the Chaklestown Cadets, who, with 
other fine commands, up that way, had treated them so hospitably. 
All New Orleans remembers what a whole-souled reception was given 
to these two sj^lendid companies named— not to omit those crack corps 
the Sfaulding Guards and the Skventv-First, (New York) Reg- 
iment, who visited our city for the "Mardi-Gras " of 1881, by invita- 
tion of the Officers of the First Division, Louisiana State National 
Guard. 

It is not too much to say, that the beneficial results of this cordial 
interchange of visits by representative soldiers have been felt from 
Maine to Texas, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Assuredly, our 
Northern military visitors carried back with them the conviction that 
the men who had " worn the gray," were rejoiced to call them friends: 
friends in need and friends in deed. 

at headquarters. 

The Armory of the Continental Guards, occupying the ground 
floor of Odd Fellows' Hall, on Camp street, opposite Lafayette Square, 
is acknowledged to be one of the handsomest and most complete in the 
country. It contains many relics of by-gone days, that are exceedingly 
interesting. The "Continental Club," composed of the active and 
honorary members of the command is an additional gratifying feature 
of the organization ; and, with its commodious and elegantly furnished 
rooms, a very acceptable one, tending largely to unite in closer links 
the officers, the men, the honorary members, and their host of friends. 

The following is the Roster of the Command as it is now registered : 

unip'ORMED role. 

Oncers.-— Captain, Wm. Pierce; First Lieutenant, C. A, Thiel ; 
Second Lieutenant, C W. Drown ; Third Lieutenant, H. N. Beach ; 
Surgeon, W. E. Schuppert. 




Sergeant, 

geant, Gc , ^ . 

Thos. O'Connor, Sr.; Second Corporal, P. B. Gilmore; Third Corporal, 

Thos. Hasam, Jr.; Fourth Corporal, Ben. Lewis. 



172 APPEiN DIX. 



Privates: — J. W. Adams, J. F. Aikeii, Sam. P. Allen, A. Bornian, 
J IK). Hozant, Volney Brown, Sr., Vol. Brown, Jr., T. M.* Baker, W. 
J. Beirne, A. Belelier, F. X. Barbot, J. Cathaloncine, J. M. Coos, G. W. 
("ooper, Wni. H- Doeves, E D. Dean, Gayden Davis, (Jeo. V. Drown, 
(t. W. England, J. B. p]llis, H. Fontaine, A. D. Finley, J. Frank Far- 
rell, W'm. (iillen, L. A. Gerties, Geo, Howe, Win. H. Harvey, Dave 
Hughes, VVni. F. Hodgkins, K. H. Hackney, Theo. Jobin, L. P. Julie, 
Bt-rnard Klotz, ('. L. Kouns, L. A. Kearnes, E. W- Kirk, Win. 
Laeour, Pres. Lindsay, T. J. Markey, E. T. Manning, J. J. Maginnis, 
M. :Ma(heea, Sanil. McNeil, T. C McQuithy, Win. McKay, M. W. 
McAdani, P. S. Moran, Jno. McGraw, E. L. Marinion, Geo. D. Motatt, 
S. McNaniara, J. L. Mueller, W. J. Maltby, Thos. O'CJonnor, Jr., Ben. 
Onorato, J. Oteri, E. F. Perillonx, Jno. T.' Pigott, W. B. Parker, Jno. 
T. Purves, W. E. Pendleton, M. R. Pittnian, J. K Renaud, T. J. Swift, 

E. K. Skinner, J. Slender, W. T. Scovell, E. A. Sliields, H. H. True, 
H. C. Thomas, T. H. Watson, B. H. Watkins, Jno. Slemmer, F. E. 
Scovell, J. B. Sullivan, W. S. Terrv, J. B. Trapolin, W. H. Wriglev, 
v.. \V. Warren. 

M(irkers:—\\'A\tev Grivot, Chas. Tliiel, Ben. Watkins, W. W. 
O'Connor. 

HONORARY MKlfBERS. 

J. T. Aycock, P. K. Angelovich, J. C. Andrews, V. Berot, F. P. 
J^rugere, Sam'l Brook, H. A. Bonnabel, J. G. Bates, T. W. Bothick, 
H. C. Brown, Chs. Brill, G. Blanchin, J. Barnard. J. H. Belian, E. 
Belknap, G. H. Braughn, H. J. Brinker, D. S. Byrnes, E. A. Born, 
W. H. Beanham, W. H. BotHnger, Fred. Busch, E. A. Burke, D. R. 
Calder, Jno. Calder, J. W. (Coleman, W. S. Campbell, W. T. Cluve- 
rius, B. W. Casey, A. Craft, J. A. Dolan, Joe Donaldson, J. C. Egan, 
V,. G. Fisher, J. D. Fletcher, F. E. Foucher, J. C. Finney. Wm. Fagan, 

F. Farrell, R. Frances, G. R. Finlay, Chs. Fisli, J. G. Fleming, Frank 
Gordon, A Grivot, L. Harris, Jno. Henderson, A. Hein, Jas. Hughes, 
Wm. Henry, John Hennessey, G. M. Harrison, R. Henley, Geo. C 
Hamilton, G. L. Hall, E. M. Ivens, Allen Jumel, John Janney, M. 
W. Joyce, J. Kittridge, Dun(;an F. Kenner, L. Kerr, M. D. Lagan, 
Theo.^Lilienthal, W. E. Moore, M. B. Muncy, A. K. Miller, H. Max- 
ent, A. Martin, John Mathers, Jr., Adolph Mever, Victor Meyer, Wm. 
Mehle, Chris. Mehle, T. McDermott, L. T. Murdock, P. J. Montross, 

A. W. xMotlett, Wasli. Marks, Geo. McCloskey, M. J. Muloihil, F. T. 
NichoUs, J. C. Norton, H. B. O'Donnell, D. Potter, E. Pragst, L. Pra- 
dos, M. Payro, Jr., M. A. Peck, E. Quartrevoux, M. Quayle, D. S. 
Ramelli, Paul Roussett, P. B. Rice, Geo. Rea, J. H. Rareshide, W. B. 
Ringrose, W. A. Robertson, H. M. N. Robinson, J. W. Sherman, C 

B. Shick, Moses Schwartz, W. H. Stout, J. G. Schriever, A. Samuels, 
(J. E. Shepherd, J. T. Sliearer, J. M. Sherrouse, C. H. Schenck, J. K 
Scott, J. F. Simpson, Joe. Starling, John B. Sargent, J. J. Sclimidt, 
Will. A. Strong (Secretary of State), L. Torrev, ('lis. Thorn, Vic. Tan- 
ner, C. \\ 'I'ruslow, Fred. N. Thaver, S. M. Todd, J. B. Vanhorn, W. 
R. Wiiitaker, C. M. Whitney, Robt. Wilson, J. J. Winn, C. L. 
Walker, li. D. Wood, Y. Francisco de Zamacona, Mexican Consul. 

TESTI.MONIAL OF SVlMr.VTHV. 

'J'hc (JuARDS sent the ibilowing dispau-h to Washington, as the 
result of a special meeting, held .September, 21st: 



APPENDIX, 173 



New Okj.eans, September 21, 1S81. 

To the Hon. .). (!. I'.laine, Si-crct.iiry of State, U. S. A., Wu.shington, D. (.'.: 

'' llonordblc ti'ir: — Tlie members of tbe Continental Guards, a 
" military organization of this city, earnestly and sincerely tender their 
" sympathy to the widow and family of our lamented President, and 
" sadly regret, with every true American citizen, his untimely death. 

" By order of the command : 

" E. K. Skinnkh, Secretary." 

ON MKS. GARFIELD'S HIOIIAI-K. 

The Secretary of State's reply was as follows : 

Dki'aktment of State, \ 
Washington, October (>th, 1881. J 

E. K. Skinner, Esq., Secretary ot the Continental Guards, Odd Fellows' Hall, New 
Orleans : 

"Sir: — I have the sad pleasure to acknowledge, on behalf of Mrs. 
"Garfield, the receipt, of your letter of the 21st ultimo, conveying 
" simple and touching expressions of the sorrow of yourself and your 
" comrades, at the death of our beloved President. 

" In this hour of supreme trial, not only the heart-broken widow, 
" but the whole American people with her, have been solaced by the 
" eloquent proofs of affection and kinship in presence of this fatal 
" ending of eighty days of hope and dread, which came from every 
" part of our common land. 

" I am, sir, your obedient servant, 

'' James G. Blaine." 



THE MASONIC BODIES. 



the grand lodge of the state of LOUISIANA 

was organized in 1812, and has now one hundred and thirty-six Lodges 
in the State— twenty-seven of which are in the City of New Orleans — 
and has a total membership of four thousand eight hundred and tifty- 
two members. 

The present Grand Master, Judge William II. Whitaker, was made 
a Mason in Linn Wood Lodge No. 167 in 1SG4, and first entered the 
Grand Lodge in 1867 as Senior Warden of Lodge 167. He was for 
several years on the Committee of Audit and Accounts ; was elected 
Junior Grand Warden in 1878 ; re-elected in 1874 ; elected Grand Senior 
Warden in 1875; re-elected in 1876 and 1877, and Grand Master in 
1881. He was for several years, also. Chairman of the Committee on 
Foreign Correspondence. He is a member of all the Masonic Bodies 
in the State, and a Knight Commander of the Court of Honor 32°, 
Supreme Council, Southern Jurisdiction of the United States. 

John Q. A. Fellows was Grand Master from 1860 to 1866. He was 



174 APPENDIX. 



made u Mason in Rising Sun Lodge No. 7, Royalton, Vermont, in Octo- 
ber, 1S-4U. He hats been i)residing officer of every Masonic Body iji 
Louisiana to which lie belonged : Lodge, Grand Lodge, (irand Cliap- 
ter, (irand Council, Grand Coniniandery, President of the Order of 
High Priesthood and Grand Coniniander-in-Cliief of the Grand Con- 
sistory. He is also Past Grand Master of the Grand Encampment of 
Knights Teniphir of the United States, for the term of 1871 to 1874; 
and the degree of Kniglit of Grand Cross of Templars was conferred 
on him by the Prince of Wales in 1873. 

Eilwin 3Iarks, Past (hand Master, was made a Mason in Dudley 
Lodge in 1858, and became a member of the Grand Lodge in 1867 as 
Master of Dudley Lodge OB. In 18fJ7 he was a member of the Commit- 
tee on Audit and Accounts, and then for several years. In 1873-74 was 
Senior Grand Warden ; in 1877-78, Deputy Grand Master, and in 1879- 

1880, (xrand Master. 

The present Grand Secretary of the (irand Lodge, James C. Batch- 
elor, M. D., was made a Mason in Alabama in 1846. He has been a 
member of tlie Grand Lodge since 1850 ; was elected Grand Secretary 
in February, 1867 ; and has been re-elected every year since. He is 
Lieutenant Grand Commander of the Supreme Council 33° of the 
Southern Jurisdiction of the United States, and is a member of every 
Masonic Body in Louisiana. — Doctor Batchelor is universally recog- 
nized as one of the profoundestand most accurate of Masonic Scholars. 
His services are recognized in all parts of the world where Masons 
meet. 

THE OKAND CHAPTER. 

The present (irand Chapter of Louisiana was reorganized in 1848. 
There are twenty-one Chapters in the State, three of which are in New 
Orleans. The total number of members is 931. The Grand Chapter 
has had twenty-one G. H. Priests and live Grand Secretaries. 

The present Grand High Priest is Andrew Hero, Jr., who entered 
the Grand Chapter in 187L!, as H. P. of Delta Chapter No. 15. He has 
filled several imi^ortant offices in the Grand Chapter, and for many 
years was chairman of the Committee on Finance. In February, 

1881, he was elected as Grand High Priest. 

The Grand Secretary is Dr. James C. Batchelor, who became a 
member of the Grand Chapter in 1857, and served in several imijortant 
offices. In 1861 he was elected Deputy Grand High Priest; and in 
I8(i7 was elected Grand Secretary, which office he has been unanimously 
re-elected to till, every year since. 

THE GKAND COUNCIL. 

The Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters of the State of 
Louisiana was organized in 1856. It has eight Councils in the State, 
one of whicli is in New Orleans, and has a total membership of 289 
members. 

The Grand Council has had twelve M. I. Grand Masters and live 
Grand kecorders. 

The Most Illustrious (Jrand Master, George J. Pinckard, has been 
an officer of the (irand Council since 1875. In 1877 he was elected 
Most Illustrious (irand Master, and has been re-elected annually since. 
He is also the M. P. (irand Principal Conductor of the work of the 
(ieneral (.irand Council of the United States. 

The (irand Recorder is Richard Lambert, who has been an officer 



of the (imiid Council since 1870. He was for six years Grand Treasurer, 
and in 187o was elected (Irand Recorder, and re-elected annually since. 

TJIK KNIGHTS TKM I'LA K. 

The Grand Coinniandery of Knights Templar of the State of 
Louisiana was organized in 18(i4. It has four ('oinnianderies in tlie 
Htate, three of which are in New Orleans, and has a total inenihersiiip 
of 8ol2 Sir Knights. 

The Coninuuidery has liad thirteen Grand Commanders and six 
Grand Recorders. 

The present R. E. Grand Commander is (Jeorge Soule. He has 
been a member of the Grand Comuiandery for a number of years, and 
has served in all the otfices of the Body. " He was elected Grand Com- 
mander in 1881, and was Assistant Grand Marslial of the Fifteenth- 
Division of the Grand Encampment Para(k^ in C.'iieago, III., in 1880. 

The Grand Recorder is Richard Lambert, wlio has been a member 
of the Grand Conunandery since 18H9. He was Grand Connuander in 
1872, and was elected Grand Recorder in 1877, and re-elected annually 
since. 

THE GRAND COXSISTOKY. 

Of MM. of the R. S- 32° in Louisiana, was organized in 1851. 

The Subordinate Bodies— Councils of Kadosh 30°, — are: Eagle 
Council of Kadosh No. (5; Los Amigos del Orden No. 7; Foyer 
Ma^onnique No. 8 ; and Silencio Chapter No. 9. 

Chapter Rose Croix 18° is composed as follows : Los Amigos del 
Orden No. 4 ; Foyer Ma^onnique No. 6 ; Silencio No. 9 ; Pelican 
Ciiapter No. 11. 

The Lodges of Perfection 14° are: Albert Pike No. 1 ; Foyer 
Mafonnique No. 3; Silencio No. 4 ; and Los Amigos del Orden No. o. 

Joseph P. Horner, 32° Kt. Com. of C. H. , Yen. Grand Master of 
Kadosh of the Grand C^onsistory MM. of the R. S 32", was l)orn in 
New York, in March. 1837. 

He became a member of Marion Lodge No. 68, in June, 18()0; organ- 
ized Orient Lodge No. 173 in 186-3, and was its \Yorsliipful Master for 
live years. He was Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Lou- 
isiana in 1872. In November, 1860, he becameaR. A- M.; and wasM. E. 
H. Priest of Delta R. A. Chapter No. 15 for 1867, and G. H. Priest of 
the Grand Chapter of Louisiana for 1873 and 1874.— He became a R. S. 
M. in Orleans Council No. 4, in January, 1862; and M. P. C. Master of 
Grand Council of R. S. M. for 1871. In 1863 he liecame a Knight Tem- 
plar in Orleans Commandery No. 3 ; was its Em. Commander in 1865, 
1867 and 1868; and Grand Commander in 1871 and 1874. 

In 1864, he joined the A. and A. Scottisli Rite as a member of Pel- 
ican Chap. R. Croix 18° ; also of Eagle Council of Kadosli 30°, and of 
the Grand Consistory 32°; and became Presiding Officer in all of those 
Bodies. In December, 1881, he was re elected for a third term, of 
three years, in the Grand Consistory. 

Thos. Cripps,— 33° G. C. C. of H. and G. Registrar G. Consistory 
32° La— was born in London, in July, 1817. He was initiated a Mason 
in Marion Lodge No. 68, in May, 1849; was its Secretary in 18.^)3; its 
W. M. in 1864; and again its Secretary from 1869 to date, a !)eriod of 
twelve years. He has been the organist of the Sup. Council .■>3° La. 
since 1872, and to the Grand Lodge of Louisiana since 1873. He has 
taken all the degrees in the York and Scottish Rites. 



17G Ai'l'KXDlX. 



THE LODGES. 



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The Sul)()r<liiiate Masonic Lodges in New Orleans that were repre- 
sented at the Obseijuies liere, were organized and chartered as follows: 

l^erfect Union No 1, organized in 1708 ; chartered in August, 18112. 
— Polar tStar No. 1, organized in 179-4 ; chartered in August, 1S12. — Per- 
severaiu'e No. 4, organized in 1810; chartered in August, 1812. — St. 
Andre No. o, chartered in June 1839, as " Disciples du 8enat Macon- 
iii(|ue," name clianged in February, 18r)5. — Los Aniigos del Orden No. 
•"), cliartered in tSepteniber, 1842.— Silencio No. 9, chartered in Febru- 
ary, i8t;i. 

(iernuinia No. 46, chartered in April, 1844. — Friends of Harmony 
No. 08, chartered June, 1848.— Mount Moriah No. 59, chartered March, 
1849.— Geoi'ge Washington No. 60, organized in 1847 ; chartered March, 
LS.lo. — Dudley No. 66, organized in 1847 ; chartered March, 1850. 

Marion No. 68, organized in 1847; chartered March, 1850. — Hiram 
Lodge No. 70, organized in 1847; chartered March, 1850. — Alpha Home 
No. 72: Alpha organized in 1848; Home in 1855 ; chartered as Alpha 
Home, Febrtiary, 1860. — Quitman No. 76, chartered March, 1850. — 
Orleans No. 78, oi'ganized 1847 ; chartered March, 1850. — Hermitage 
No. 98, chartered January, 1851. 

Louisiami No. 102, chartered in January, 1851. -Ocean No. 144, 
chartered February, 1857.— Linn Wood No. 167, chartered February, 
ISHl.— Kosiiios No. 171, chartered February, 1864.— Union No. 172, 
chartered February, 1865.— Orient No. 17;>, chartered February, 1865. — 
Dante, No. 174, chartered February, 1866.— Perfect Harmony No. 176, 
chartered Feln-uary, 1867. — Corinthian No. 190, chartered February, 
ISO',) —Jefferson No. 191, chartered February, 1869. 

PRESIDENT GARFIELD AS A MASON. 

The following is President Gaifield's Masonic history, as detailed 
by those in position to give it : 

".Tames A. Garfield was made a Mason in Magnolia Lodge No. 20, 
at (\)luml)us, O., Nov. 22, 1861, while commandant at Cami) Chase. 
His alhliations at the timeof his death were with Pental, Pennsylvania. 
Lodge No. 23, and Columbia Coramandery No. 2, Knights Templar, of 
Washington, D. C 

" He was the eighth Mason, but the first Knight Templar honored 
witli the Presidency. He was one of the charter members and an 
earnest supporter of Pental, Pa., Lodge. 

" After his election to the Presidency, his Commandery sought to 
express their esteem for him, by attending the inaugural ceremonies; 
and althougli Masonic law forbids any interfei'ence with or partici- 
jtation in political or national affairs, the occasion was regarded by the 
\{. E. (J rand (Commander as sufficiently important and devoid of 
partisan coloring to grant the desired permission for five platoons, of 
sixteen Knights each, to attend. 

"On July 19, 1881, Hauselman Commandery No. 16, at Cincinnati, 
cli'cted him an iionorary meml)er ; and tlie handsomely engrossed reso- 
lutions of .-iympatby, accompanying tlie notification," was one of the 
few matters brought to the President's personal notice during his last 
sickness. 

"His reply, through his Private Secretary, J. Stanley Brown, 
evinced his full appreciation and acceptance of this distinguished mark 
of honor and respect." 

His funeral at Cleveland was attended by the Knights Templar of 
Ohio, under (Jrand Commander Tatem. 



THE ORLEANS ARTILLERY REGIMENT. 



This tine corps, — tlie majority of wliose Offict^rs :iiid Men is com- 
posed of the substantia! Creole element of our population— was orj^an- 
i/ed in 1824. It then numbered two (!o))ii)anies, commanded respe(^t- 
ively by Cai)tain Benjamin Huisson and (Captain Donatien Auf^ustin. 

Capt. Kuisson was a soldier of Napoleon the (ireat, and was pro- 
moted on the famous battlefield of Montereau, in France, for consjiicu- 
ous gallantry, l)y the I'^mperor in j)erson. Duriufj; the war between the 
States, Captiu)! Buisson was one of the tirst ai^jiointed Brif^adier Gener- 
als of the ('onfederate Army. Capt. Donatien Augustiu — (whose .sons 
served with distinction in the Louisiana regiments during the civil 
war, and who are still actively connected with the civic and military 
duties) — became General of that splendid ante-bellum corps, the Louisi- 
ana Legion. He also commanded a Brigade of Volunteers, raised in 
New Orleans, that tendered their services to Gen. Zachary Taylor dur- 
ing the war with Mexico, (ien. Augustin and his Brigade were at once 
accepted ; all the arrangements were rapidly completed for their 
de])arture for the field; but, <m the very eve of embarking on the 
transports, counter orders were received from the War Department, 
and the Brigade disbanded. Gen. Augustin, however, continued to 
serve in the Legion, with unabated zeal and intelligence. 

In the Fall of 1845, when Gen. Taylor was gathering his forces at 
Corpus Christi, to march on the Rio Grande, the Orleans Artillery 
Jiattalion, under the veteran Major Louis Gaily, was mustered into the 
U. S. Army, and remained with Gen. Taylor, doing eflficient service 
during their term. 

Again, in 1846, when a call for more troops was made, three com- 
panies of the Battalion, under Captains Maurice Grivot, F. Mauberret, 
and J. Penna, — commanded by Major Gaily, — volunteered; and were 
stationed at Fort St. Philip and Fort Jackson, relieving the Regulars 
on duty there. 

From the close of the Mexican War to 1860, the Battalion ranked 
always among the largest, best equipped and best drilled volunteer 
organizations in the country ; and it was prompt to respond to all calls 
for service in repressing riots, or other serious disturbances of the 
public peace. 

After the death of Major Louis Gaily, Captains M. Grivot, F. 
Mauberret and Alexander Derb&s successively commanded the Bat- 
talion as Senior Captains. In 1859, Captain Paul E. Theard was elected 
Major, and reorganized the Battalion into six Companies. 

When the war between the States commenced, the Battalion was 
assigned to duty at Fort Jackson until relieved by Major Bradford 
witii the First Regular Infantry of Louisiana. Upon their return to 
Camp Lewis, nearCarrollton, in June, 1861, the State having no equip- 
ments, no harness, no horses, nor field pieces to supply the Battalion, 
Major Th(?ard resigned. 

' Four Companies, under the command respectively of Captains 
Francisco Gomez, John P. Morlot, Geo. Tromeyer and James C- Th^rd, 
eager to serve the Southern cause, agreed to do service as Infantry, and 
were mustered as such into the Provisional Army of the Confederate 
States. They were immediately detatched as Heavy Artillery, and 
were assigned to duty at Fort Livingston, La. They were 'finally 

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merged in the Tweiity-seeond Louisiana Infantry, commanded by 
Colonel Isaac W. Patto'n, under whom tlieydid good service, especially 
at Vicksburg and at iSi)anish Fort, near Mobile. 

Alter tiie war, the Veteran Members of the Orleans Battalion, in 
order to preserve their right to the Tomb Monument in the old St. 
liouis Cemetery, formed an Assoeiation for the purpose of taking care 
of tlie Monument. The following members were elected the Board 
of Directors, and so remain to this day : 

Officers:— Col. Paul E. Theard, President; Capt. Paulin Durel,Vice 
President; Lieut. H. Gaily, Treasurer; Lieut M. A. Calongne, Secre- 
tary. Directors :— Captains B. W. Hebrard, C. R. Fagot, Lieutenants 
P. A. (romez, Victor Moi'ano, M. B. Dubuisson, and Corporals J. T. 
Degrais, L. A. Beney and C- A. Bouyer. 

On the (5th of May, 1S7(), tlie former Members of the Battalion 
serving in the Militia, reorgani/.ed. the Orleans Artillery. P'our Com- 
panies, commanded respectively l)y Captains Jno. B. Vinet, Geo. H. 
Tardy, A. J. Bachemin, and P. O. Peyroux, were promptly organized; 
and on the LSth of September, 1S7(), P. Malochee was elected Major. 
He having resigned, Capt. J. B. Vinet was elected Major on the 9th of 
January, 1877. 

In tlie meantime, three more Companies had been organized ; and 
the Command now numbered seven full companies, otticered, in 
addition to the above named, by Captains Anatole A. Ker, P. S- Wiltz, 
Jr., and A. Sambola, two of whom had replaced Captains J. Schweitzer 
and L. F. Bouchereau. 

It was then decided to organize the Battalion into a Regiment, and 
on the 12th of January, 1877, Major J. B. Vinet was unanimously 
elected Colonel ; and on the 3d of May, 1877, Captain Geo. H. Tardy 
was elected Lieutenant Colonel, and Captain A. J. Bachemin, Major. 

Lieutenant Colonel Geo. H. Tardy resigning, Jno. H. Pilie was 
elected Lieutenant Colonel, on the 15th of May, 1877. 

On the 9th of January, 1878, the Field Officers of the Regiment 
having resigned, the following successors were elected: A. J. 
Pachemin, Colonel; P. O. I'eyroux, Lieutenant Colonel; O. DeBouchel, 
Major. 

On the death of Major DeBouchel, Captain P. S. Wiltz, Jr., of 
Battery "F," was elected'Major, February '21st, 1880. 

The above officers are still in command of the Regiment. 

Since its reorganization, the Regiment, under its different Com- 
manders, has prospered continually, and has resjionded promptly for 
duty on all occasions when its services were required. The Regiment 
is at present (juartered in its old ante-bellum Headquartei's, the State 
Arsenal on St. Peter Street. It can justly be said of this Veteran 
Organization, that whenever called upon "by the State, it has been 
found true to its motto: " Always Ready ! " 

The Regiment of Orleans Artillery is at present composed of six 
(Companies, aggregating 460 members, and is officered as follows : 

FieJd. —Colonel, A. J. Bachemin ; Lieut. Colonel, P. O. Peyroux ; 
Major, P. S. Wiltz, Jr. 

Staff.— Adjutiint, Ijieut. Raoul Tertrou ; Quartermaster, Capt. 
Ila])hael Abramovich; Ordnance Officer, Capt. A. Bailly-Blanchard ; 
Commissary, Capt. Leon Palas; Surgeon, Major Edw. Ader; Assistant 
Surgeon, Capt. J. (i. Hava ; Assistant Quartermaster, Lieut. F. K. 
lienaudin ; Chaplain, Archbisho}) PercliC'. 

/y/ne.— Battery "A."— Captain, Leon Nunes ; First Lieutenant, 



Jno. T. Pittiuan ; First LieutoiKinl, Jr., Ijoiiis Caroii; Se<-()n(l Litni- 
teiiant, P. IJ. SuUitk-h. 

Battery " H."— Captain, Clias. Lejeuno; First Lit'iik'iiaiit, 'i'iios. J. 
Camp; He'coiid Lieutenant, Alb. Muller. 

Battery "C."— At Donaldsonville. ~ Captain, D'Kveraiix Jones; 
First Lieutenant, Pierre Kloppinan; First Lieutenant, Jr., J. J. 
Lafargue; Second LieuteJiant, Fred. Karliardt. 

Battery " D."— Captain, (^eo. S('h;etter; Second Lieutenant, Jac(iues 
Levy. 

Battery " E."— Captain, Anthony Sani[)()la; First Lieutenant, Jr., 
Eniile BaVhler; Second Lieutenant, Nicliolas Tiieodore. 

Battery " F."— Captain, Eniile Pachoud ; First Lieutenant, Louis 
Donatbrt; First Lieutenant, Jr., Eug. Huppenbauer ; Second Lieu- 
tenant, Chas. H. Richardson. 

Non-Co)nmiH>iloned ;SYo/f.— Sergeant Major, Peter J. Coiron ; Quar- 
termaster Sergeant, Paul'Forget ; Ordnance Sergeant, A. Culongne; 
Commissary Sergeant, Josepli Both; Color Sergeant, J. Gerhardt. 



THE FRANCS TIREURS. 



This volunteer military C<mipany was organized June ;Wth, 1S77, 
by Captain A. Selle,— now Honorary Captain— and by Sergeant Major 
Gr6goire. 

The Company's first parade took place on the 12th of August, the 
same year, in honor of the "blessing of their flags," by the Catholic 
Church. The Company numbered, on the occasion, four (Officers, 
eight non-commissioned' Officers, and sixty-five Privates. 

The "Francs Tireurs d' Orleans" is an independent organization, 
not belonging to the State Militia, and receiving no appropriation from 
the State for its maintenance. In its ranks are to be found many 
soldiers who took an active part in the French ranks in the campaigns 
of the celebrated Franco-German War of 1870-71. 

Although composed exclusively of Frenchmen, the " Francs 
Tireurs d' Orleans" have always attended all ceremonies and parades 
of our Military, in honor of memorable events in the history of the 
country. The "Francs Tireurs " usually parade as the guests of the 
Orleans Artillery Regiment. They showed by their presence in the 
obsequies of the 26th of September, 1881, that the great loss which 
America has sustained, was shared in by all the dwellers within her 
confines. 

The Company is at present officered as follows: Captain, A. 
Dumestre ; First Lieutenant, B. Maylie ; Second Lieutenant, James 
Faure; Second Lieutenant, Jr., J. Pujol; Adjutant, P. Seize; audit 
numbers forty-four non-commissioned Officers and Privates. 

The uniform, which is that of the Frencli Army, always attracts 
great attention, and is composed of : Red kepi, marine blue cloth coat, 
red pants with, light blue band, and red epaulettes for non-com- 
missioned officers and privates, and gold for the officers. 



THE FIRST REGIMENT. 



Tlus excellent iiilautry eoiiimand was organized in the Fall of 
1877, as follows : 

Company A, the " Meyer Rifles," Captain M. C. Royes and First 
Lieutenant H. Hourbeigt. — Company J^, Captain A. M. Aucoin. — 
Company C, the "Howard Light Guards," Captain B. J. Goodman, 
First Lieutenant C. D. Bullock, and Second Lieutenant, W. B. Stans- 
bury. — Comi)any D, Captain Gabriel Fernandez, Lieutenant A. 
Lanata. — Company E, the "Zouaves," Captain Geo. H. Lord, First 
Lieutenant I). P. Mahoney, and Second Lieutenant Tliomas Brennan, 
— and Company F, the "Sumner Rifles," Captain Chas. G. Ogden. 

The first Colonel of the Regiment was Adolph Meyer, Esq., one of 
our leading cotton factors. 

The other Staff Officers were: Lieutenant Colonel Richard Wilde, 
Major Thomas Mclntyre, and Adjutant Guy Carleton. All three were 
connected with the city Press. 

The Regiment's first uniform was blue cloth tunics and pants, 
white cross belts, brass epaulettes, and blue caps, ('ompany E, how- 
ever, wore the well-known Zouave costume. 

The armory was the spacious second story of the old Armory 
Hall, on Camp Street, below Poydras, — where the Regiment, befoi-e 
being mustered into the State service as " The First Regiment, Louis- 
iana State National Guard," drilled assiduously for some months. 

Its first public parade took place on the anniversary of the Battle 
of New Orleans, January 8th, 1878, — dress parade being held in Lafay- 
ette Square, — and the verdict, not only of the general public, but of the 
military critics, was, that the new command was most emphatically a 
success in every way : in the individuality of the officers and men, in 
the neat and serviceable appearance of the uniform, and in the evidence* 
of excellent drill. 

In February, 1879, the uniform of the regiment was changed: the 
oflicers retaining the blue cloth coat and pants, with gold trimmings, 
and the men being furnished with dark grey cloth suits, white cross 
belts, and plumed shakos. 

The headquarters and drill rooms were removed from the Armory- 
Hall to the Turners' Hall, on Lafayette street. 

In February, 1880, the regimental armory was removed from Tur- 
ners' Hall to the upper story of the Washington Artillery Arsenal, on 
Carondelet street, where the command has ample facilities. 

JNhantinie, as usual with all volunteer commands, many changes 
had taken place in the Staff and in the Line. Lieut. Col. Wilde and 
Major Mclntyre resigned, and were succeeded by Captain Geo. H. 
Lord, who was elected Lieutenant Colonel, and C. C. Cain, who was 
elected Major. Lieut. Carleton, Adjutant, also resigned. In 188(1, 
Major < 'ain resigni'd, and that office was vacant for a year. 

in 1880, the roil of the Regiment was as follows : 

l-'iehl and Staff Ollicers :—Coh)nel, Adolph Meyer; Lieutenant 
Colonel, (Jeo. H. Lord; Ijieutenant T. H. Underwood, Adjutant; 
Lieutemmt Theo. Heliman, Ciuartermaster ; Capl. A. M. Aucoin, 
Commissary; ('apt. Otto Schwaner, Ordiumce Ollicer ; Major W. H. 
Watkius, Surgeon; Capt. W. M. Schup]iert, Assistant Surgeon. 

Company A.: Captain, M. C. Royes; First Lieutenant, H. Hour- 
l)eigt; Second Lieutenant, P. Lobell.— Comi)any C: Captain, B. J. 



CJoodinaii; First Lieuteiiaiit, J. L. Mi^Clure ; Second Lieutenant, Ed. 
Haudue. — Company T).: Captain, G. Fernandez; Seeond Lieutenant, 
A. Lanata. — Company K.: Captain, D. P. Malioney ; First Lieutenant, 
!v. H. A. INIooney. — Company F.: Captain. T. J. Jiatii ; First Lieu- 
tenant Dulanty. — Company G.: Ca[)tain, Peter JUit/; First Lieu- 
tenant, Cluis Lusher. — Comimny H.: Captain, Clias. Aron ; First 
Lieutenajit Tuja(iue. 

It will be seen that, since 1S77, Company 15 had disbanded, wliilst 
Companies G and H had been added to the Regiment. 

The Regiment was now part and parcel of tlie First Jirigade, 
Louisiana State National Guard, Brigadier Genei'al John Glynn, Jr., 
commanding. 

In the Spring of 1881, General Augustus Reichard, commanding the 
Second Brigade, resigned, and Colonel Meyer was selected by Governor 
Wiltz to succeed him. Lieutenant Colonel liord wastliei'eupon elected 
Colonel of the First Regiment and Captain M. (J. Royes, its Major; 
he being succeeded, as (Captain of Company A, by his First Lieutenant, 
C. H. Hourbeigt. In August, 1881, the vacant Lieutenant Colonelcy 
was filled by the election of the veteran Thos. ]>lclntyre, and J. Mas- 
sich was elected Sergeant Major. 

The i^resent organization of the Regiment is given on pages 72 and 
73 of this book, with this addition, that Company D is being reorgan- 
ized. 

The First Regiment owed much of its pristine vitality to Colonel 
Meyer's care. Under Colonel Lord's energetic and skillful control it 
has become a strong, well discii)lined command, — a credit to its officers 
and men and to the State. It has several tiines promptly answered 
calls ujjon it for service, in keex)ing the peace. 



THE GERMAN BATTALION. 



This numerous, martial-looking and well drilled corps was organ- 
ized in the year 1878, by German residents, and the citizens speaking 
their language. Among other well known residents who took a warm 
and active interest in the undertaking, were Messrs. C. F. Buck, Ben. 
Armbruster, M. Herrman, G. Muller, Judge G. H. Braughn, and 
Augustus Reichard,— the latter, ex-Colonel of the Twentieth Louisiana, 
in the civil war. After several preliminary meetings, it was deter- 
mined to commence the forming of Companies. This was rapidly 
effected, with the following result: Comi)any A. — Captain Geo. H. 
Braughn. Company B. — Captain Ben Armbruster. Company C— 
CJaptain Maximillian Herrman. Company 13.— Captain George Miil- 
ler, — and Company E., Captain Ferdinand Schumacker. 

In December, 1878, the five Companies were organized into a Bat- 
talion, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Augustus Reichard and 
Major Geo. H. Braughn. The Staff" consisted of Lieutenant Charles 
Lochbrunner, Adjutant; Captain Ed. Lilienthal, Quarternuister, and 
Dr. F. Loeber, Surgeon. 

The Battalion was organized as an independent military corps, 
and so remained until the beginning of 188(», wlien it concluded to 
enter the State National Guard. That is, all the Companies, except 



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the Company commanded by Captain Mviller, which preferred to 
retain its independent position. Tliereupon, Companies A, B, C, 
and K were iniistered into tlie State service, and Coniimny E became 
Company i) of the new Battalion. — Tliis, in Febrnary, 1880: the mus- 
tering olhcer Ix'iiii;- Col. C. L. Walker, of Gen. Belian's Staff. 

'j'he Washington Artillery and the Crescent Begiment having 
also entered the State service, it was determined to form a new Brig- 
ade, — the Second — with the German Battalion as a component part ; 
iind, ni)on the unanimous recommendation of all the ofHcers of the 
three iiattalions, the Governor appointed Colonel Reichard a Briga- 
dier General to command the new Brigade. — Emj^hatically, the right 
man in the right place. 

Col. Ileichard's j^roraotion was followed by the election of Major 
i^raughn to the Lieutenant Colonelcy of the Battalion, and Captain 
Ben. Armbruster to the Majority. 

Since the tirst organization, the changes among officers and men, 
incidental to all volunteer connnands, have taken place in the Battal- 
ion, but its strength and discipline have in no ways been affected. The 
Field and Staff" and t\}e Line Officers are now as presented on pages 69 
and 70 of this book. 

The arnjs of the Battalion — whicli is fully armed and equipped — 
are Springfield rifles, breech-loading, and bayonets, furnished by the 
State. The uniform is i>rovided by the Battalion, and is substantially 
that of the Prussian Imperial Guards : dark blue coat with red cuffs 
and collars ; very dark gray pants with red stripes ; helmets with 
white horse-hair plume. The officers wear in addition white silver 
sashes and epaulettes, — a very showy, and at the same time, martial 
uniform, setting oft' the officers and men to great advantage. 

The Armory of the Battalion is on Dry ades street, just above Canal. 
The Band numbers twelve pieces, with Frank Fortune as leader, and 
is uniformed like the command. 

The Battalion always ajjpears with full ranks, and never fails to 
elicit admiration by its steady discipline and soldierly appearance. It 
is very fortunate in its excellent corps of officers. The Lieutenant 
Colonel commanding and his officers are justly proud of their com- 
mand. 



THE CRESCENT REGIMENT. 



This popular infantry regiment is the successor of the Crescent 
Cily Battalion, which was organized in October, 1877, with the follow- 
ing ('oin])anies : 

Crescent Jiilles, Captain U. B. Pleasants,— League Guards, Captain 
S. IT. liuck,— Vaudry Rifles, Captain A. E. Morphy,— Louisiana Greys, 
Captain Edwin Belkiui]). 

The Battiilioii was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Chas. E. 
Fenner, witli Hieliard C. P.ond as Major,— both elected unanimously, 
and both of them officers who had seen much active service in the 
ex-Con federate Army. Many of the other officers, and of the rank 
and tile, had al.so been under fire. 

Shortly thereafter, the :Ni(,'holls' Rilles,— an independent company, 
Captain FA. Flood commanding,— were received into the Battalion. 



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Tlie following- Staff Ofticors wero tiieu apjioinU'd: Adjutant, 
Lieutenant W. C H. Robinson ; Conuui.ssary, Captain Jolm Aug'ustin ; 
Surgeon, Dr. Cornelius Beard; atid. on the Non-Cotnniissione(l Staff, 
15. C. Mire as Sergeant Major. All of tlieiu had seen active service. 

Kre long. Captain Buck resigned the command of tlie League 
Guards, and was i^laced on riie Staff as Ordnance OHicer. Ijieuteiiant 
William F. Pinckard succeeded Captain Buck in the League (iuards, 
and soon won and kept for them an enviable reputation for thorough 
drill and tine soldiery appearance. 

During the month of May, LSTS, the Jiattalion decided to enter the 
" State National Guards," and were mustered in early in June. The 
ceremony took place in Lafayette S(|uare, and was witnessed by a hos;. of 
spectators, among whom were many ladies, as also offlcers of other 
commands, in uniform, with several U S. Army Oflticers, — invited 
guests. The Companies were out in full numbers; and, in their hand- 
.some grey uniforms, with white epaulettes, white cross-lielts, and 
shakos with plumes, and ample proofs of thorough drill, at once 
established themselves in the popular favor — a flattering position they 
have held ever since. Dress-parade followed the muster ; and then, 
])receded bv their large and excellent band, the Battalion marched to 
St. Patrick's Hall. 

The main hall of that grand edifice easily accommodated several 
thousand spectators, gathered to witness the very interesting ceremony 
of the presentation to the Battalion, by Major Bond, of a beautiful 
stand of colors. The Companies drew up on three sides of a hollow 
square, the fourth being formed by the platform on winch sat CJovernor 
Nicholls and a large number of State and City officials and other 
invited guests. 

Major Bond, in a brief, well-worded address, presented the colors 
to Lieutenant Colonel Fenner, who received them in a spirit-stirring 
speech. Governor Nicholls, — one of the most distinguished Colonels 
and lirigadiers of Lee's Array — then delivered an address, most ap- 
2)ropriately and happily conceived and delivered. , 

Ere the assembly was dismissed, Lieutenant Colonel Fenner 
announced that he had inaugurated a competitive company drill, to 
take place annually, the prizes to be twenty-four handsome silver 
medals, that he had already provided, and to be worn for a year by the 
Company winning them. 

The excellent effect of this stimulus to the soldierly ambition of 
officers and men to excel, has been witnessed since ,by thousands of 
spectators at the annual public drills of the Battalion. 

The first of these competitive drills took place in June, 1878, in 
St. Patrick's Hall; and, after a close contest, in which the League 
Guards, under Capt. Pinkard, and the Crescent Rifles, under Capt. 
Pleasants, were the chief rivals, — the odds among the spectators being 
rather in favor of the latter— the " Leagues " carried off the prizes. 

Their defeat stimnlated the " Crescents " to renew^ed efforts ; and, 
at the second annual competition, in May, 1879, they won the victory. 

This was the first of these interesting exhibitions that took place 
at the Fair Grounds, and in the open air; and, as the attendance of 
spectators was by thousands— the ladies being out in full numbers— 
and each Company had its hundreds of admirers and backers, the 
result was a most gratifying success, especiallj^ as after the delivery of 
the medals by Lieutenant Colonel Fenner to the rejoicing' winners, 



the spacious ball room was brilliantly illuniiiiated and a grand mili- 
tary Itall filled out the eveniiii;- delightfully. 

All the live Companies took part in this second competitive drill, 
and their imjjrovemcnt was marked. The Louisiana Greys were now 
known as the J^urke Eifles, under Captain Atwood Violett- They 
were named after Major E. A. Burke, who had been, during- the war, 
an officer on General E. Kirljy Smith's staff, in the Trans-Mississipj)i 
Dei)artment, and was now appointed Captain and Quartermaster of 
the Crescent City Battalion. 

Up to this time the Companies had had their individual armories, 
scattered here and there ; but they now secured the upper part of the 
Mechanics' Institute, on Dryades street, giving them ample accom- 
modations 

In 18S0 the Battalion lost its highly esteemed and able command- 
ing officer, Lieutenant Colonel Fenner, who, being appointed by Gov- 
ernor Wiltz an Associate Justice on the State Supreme Bench, did uo( 
think it within the line of duty in that position to hold any other 
office. His farewell to the Battalion was the occasion of an inter- 
change of kindly feeling not likely to be forgotten by any of the 
parties present. 

About this time the Battalion united with the German Battalion 
and the Washington Artillery to form the Second Brigade, First 
Division. Lo'iisiana State National Guard. The officers of these three 
fine commands united in selecting as their Brigadier, Lieutenant 
Colonel Augustus Reichard, of the German Battalion — a type of the 
perfect soldier and gentleman. He appointed that zealous and intelli- 
gent officer. Lieutenant Robinson, Adjutant of the Crescent Battalion 
from its inception, to be his Chief-of-StafF, with the rank of Lieutenant 
Colonel. This created a vacancy in the Adjutancy of the Crescent 
Battalion, whi(;h was filled by the appointment of that thorough tacti- 
cian and energetic officer. Lieutenant John G. Woods, of the Crescent 
Rifles. 

Major R. C. Bond was elected Lieutenant Colonel, to succeed Lieu- 
tenant Colonel Fenner; and, shortly after, two Companies of the 
Second Infantry Battalion, L. S. N. G., — which corps had dissolved— 
joined the Crescent Battalion. They were the Hester Rifles, Captain 
Clias. Donnaud, and the Jumel Guards, Captain Henry Pickles, both 
of them excellent company conmianders. 

This made a Regiment of the Crescent Battalion. Accordingly, 
Ijieutenant Colonel Bond was promoted to Colonel ; Mr. Ed. Ivy was 
elected Lieutenant Colonel, and J. D. Hill (Lieut. Colonel of the late 
Second Regiment), was made Major. 

In the third annual competitive drill, at the Fair Grounds, in 
May, 1880, the League Guards, Captain Pinckard ; Cx'escent Rifles, 
Ca))tain I'leasants ; Vaudry Rifles, Captain Morphy ; Nicholls Rifles, 
Caj)tain Flood, and Burke' Rifles, Captain Violett, participated. 

The (/omi)anies drilled assiduously for several weeks under the 
direction of U. S. Sergeants, and the judges were U. S. Army officers. 
The attendance was very large, and the contest a most exciting one. 
It ended by the judges awarding the medals to the League Guards. 

A comjietitive inter-state drill being announced at Nashville, the 
Regiment sent a delegation there, composed of men from each Com- 
j)any, all under the command of Captain Pleasants. Quartermaster 
Burke, with characteristic energy and liberality, was largely instru- 
mental in the success of this improvised expedition. 

'ill ■ ■■■■■■in« i mnM in^^iiw iiwi 



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Shortly after, the Vaiidry Rifles regretted tu lose their com- 
inauder, Capt. A. E. Morphy, wiio had been with theiu three years. 
He had won both their eontitlenee and their alfection. Ere they were 
aware of his intent to resign, they had presented him witli a hand- 
some sword. Captain Mori)iiy's successor was Lieutenant John (i. 
Woods, who resigned the llegimental Adjutancy to take this position. 

Then came the news of tlie death of Colonel Bond, who, in failing 
health, had sought renewed strength in a trip to the West. His re- 
mains were brought to the city ; and thence taken by steamboat, up 
the river, to Donaldsonville, the place of his birth. The Regiment 
and a large concourse of friends accompanied the body to the steamer. 
The military escort to Donaldsonville and tiring party there, was com- 
posed of the Vaudry Ritles, under Captain Woods and First Lieuten- 
ant P. R. Angelovich, with Theodore D. Wharton as Orderly Ser- 
geant, and Geo. F. Wharton as Marker. Col. Bond's death, in the' 
prime of manhood, was deeply regretted. 

Lieutenant Colonel Ivy, an excellent otlicer, became Colonel of 
the Regiment; Major J. D.' Hill, its Lieutenant Colonel, and Captain 
Atwood Violett, of tlie Burke Bities-, was promoted to Major. 

The Crescent Rifles, shortly after Col. Bond's death, were grieved 
to be compelled to receive the resignation of Captain Pleasants. His 
proficiency as an officer, his strict sense of duty, and genial, quiet 
ways as a friend and comrade, had had much to do in giving the 
Crescents their enviable reputation. He was succeeded by First Lieu- 
tenant Leslie Bobb. 

Lieutenant Plenry H. Baker, of the Crescent Rifles, — one of the 
war veterans of the Washington Artillery,— now organized a new 
Company, composed of young men, none of whom were under six 
feet in height, and they were appropriately named the "Stonewall 
Grenadiers." Their admission to tlie Regiment gave it a strength of 
eight fine Companies. 

Sergeant-Major B. C. Mire, well versed in his duties, was elected 
Adjutant of the Regiment, to succeed Lieutenant Woods; and the 
Field and Staff then stood, at the close of 18.S0: Colonel, E. Ivy; Lieu- 
tenant Colonel, J. D. Hill; Major, Atwood Violett; Adjutant, Lieu- 
tenant, B. C. Mire; Quartermaster, Captain E, A. Burke; Commis- 
sary, Captain John Augustin ; Ordnance Oflftcer, Captain J. 1>. C 
Stevenson ; Surgeon, A. B. Miles. 

The fourth annual competitive drill of the Regiment, in May, 
1881, attracted general attention, not only here, but in other Southern 
cities, for it was announced several weeks in advance that there would 
be two days' competition : on the first, among the Crescent Companies, 
for the Fenner medals ; and on the second, for monied prizes, for which 
any and all military companies could compete. In response to the 
latter, it was published that Memphis, Mobile and Houston would 
enter the arena. 

The attendance of the public at the Fair Grounds for this very 
interesting exhibition of soldierly skill and bearing, was larger than 
at any previous gathering. Visitors came from far and near to witness 
it. On the first day, four companies of the Crescent Regiment 
competed, and surprised the spectators by their proficiency. The test 
was much more elaborate and trying than ever before- 

The gallant League Guards, under Captain Pinckard, came fully 
up to their usual standard ; but the Crescent Rifles, under their new 
commander. Captain H. Allen,— Captain Pleasants, volunteering as a 
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Lieutenant for the occasion — carried off the prizes. Captain Whitney 
won many plaudits for tlie Nicliolls llifles ; but, to the general astonish- 
ment, the Vaudry llifles, under Captain Woods, came out second in the 
score, thus beating the formidable " Leagues," and coming within a 
few points of the victorious " Crescents." 

The new commander of the " Crescents," Captain Allen, had been 
a Lieutenant in the celebrated Chickasaw Guards, of Memphis. On 
this, his flrst appearance at the head of the "Crescents," his quiet, 
determined bearing, thorough knowledge of tactics, and rapid, sure, 
easy handling of his men, at once placed him in the front rank among 
our military men. 

The second day's, or inter-8tate drill, will long be remembered by 
the thousands who witnessed it. The Judges, as on the first day, were 
U. y. Army Officers ; and it was evident they were exacting and rigid 
to the last degree. The programme laid down in advance, was such as 
to thoroughly test every otfleer and every private ; and it may well be 
conceived how closely and eagerly every movement was watched by 
the legions of friends and admirers of each comijeting Company, and 
how warmly and enthusiastically every delicate or brilliant display 
was applauded,— especially by the ladies, who were in bewildering 
array, from Louisiana, Tennessee, Alabama and Texas. 

After a long and most exciting contest, the Judges awarded the first 
prize to the Chickasaw Guards, and the second to the Crescent Rifies. 
The Guards' splendid appearance and magnificent drill produced a 
profound impression. The Companies ranked, in the net number of 
points won by each, as follows: 1, Chickasaw Guards.— 2, Crescent 
Rifles.— 3, League Guards.— 4, Houston Light Guards.— .5, Vaudry 
Rifles.— 6, Mobile Rifles.— 7, Nicholls Rifles. 

It should be said for Captain Whitney, of the Nicholls Rifles, that 
he entered the race, fully appreciating the immense odds against him— 
for he was comparatively an untried conmiander ; but he nevertheless 
showed the resolute confidence and pluck of a good soldier, who, 
though defeated, is not dismayed. 

During the two days, the grounds were kept in regular military 
style, by the commands of Captains Baker, Donnaud, Pickles and 
Wilson. 

Soon after this exhibition, the second annual inter-State drill took 
place at Nashville, and the Crescent Rifles, under Captain Allen, took 
part in it. Their competitors were the Porter Rifles, the Bluft" City 
Guards, and other noted commands. 

As the Crescents lost the prize for which they fought by only 2-100 
of a point,— according to the decision of the U. S. Army Officers, who 
acted as Judges,— they were not at all downcast by their defeat. Their 
s])lendid reception when they got back home, amply consoled them. 

Later on. Colonel Ivy, to the regret of the Regiment, resigned as 
did Lieutenant Colonel Hill. The veteran Pleasants was elected 
Colonel; Major Violett became Lieutenant Colonel, and Captain 
Baker was elected Major. Adjutant Mire, who had filled his duties to 
general satisfaction, resigned ; and Lieutenant Robinson resumed the 
Adjutancy at the request of Colonel Pleasants, who knew how well 
fitted he was to the position. Colonel Pleasants then announced the 
loUowing as the Regimental Commissioned and Non-Commissioned 
Stall": (Quartermaster, Captain E. A. Burke; Surgeon, W. G. Mitchell; 
Chaplain, Rev. Dr. Hugh Miller Thompson; Sergeant-Major, S, A.' 
Trufant; Commissary and Ordnance Sergeant, Paul Holloway.— 



APPENDIX. 18< 



Colonel Pleasants found that the State law did not entitle him to a 
coniniissioned ofHeer, as a (Jonuuissary ; and niucli to his and tlie Regi- 
ment's regret, the StafT lost the services of that valuable otlicer, Captain 
John August! n. 

Colonel Pleasants, who is no holiday soldier, at once set to work to 
bring the Regiment up to tlie iiigliest standard of drill and soldierly 
appearance, commencing by instituting, attiie lU'giment's new armory 
on Canal street, Officers' Schools of Instruction. Tlie results have 
already been beneticial,aslias been shown in recent parades, musters, and 
inspections— more esjiecially wlien the different commands passed in 
review on the 18th of Decend)er, before Governor McKnery and the 
French Staff Officers, visitors to the Yorktown Centennial. 



THE MITCHEL RIFLES. 



This independent military company, composed of citizens of Irish 
birth, is named after the late John Mitchel, wliose name became first 
familiar to the reading public everj'where us one of the leaders of the 
zealous and talented men who in 1847-48, made the " Young Ireland 
Party " famous. Among John Mitehel's colleagues in this celebrated 
political movement were those distinguished Irishmen, Smith O'Brien 
and Thomas Francis Meagher, besides a number of other eminent 
" sons of the green Isle." 

One of the most brilliant speakers and writers of this band of 
patriots was the gifted young Joseph Brennan, who came to New 
Orleans, "an exile from Erin," in 1849, and soon made his mark as a 
speaker, a poet and a writer for the press. The terrible yellow fever 
of 1853 broke his health, and ere long poor Brennan found rest in one 
of our cemeteries. The compiler, his confrere on the press, with pleas- 
ure still remembers the young patriot's fine face, melodious voice and 
gentle manner,— types of a generous spirit and a warm heart, allied to 
unflagging industry and unfaltering devotion, at all hazards, to what 
he deemed the right. 

John Mitchel was a member of Parliament, and was also one of 
the "Exiles of 1848," With Meagher, he finally settled down in this 
country. In the civil war, Mitchel espoused the Southern cause, and 
distinguished himself as a journalist in Richmond, Va. 

The Mitchel Rifles, after many vicissitudes of fortune, have suc- 
ceeded in placing their command on an enduring foundation, not 
only as to finances, but as to equipments and numerical strength. 
They have now a roll of over forty active, and thirty honorary mem- 
bers. Their armory is at No. 108 "St. Charles street. The uniform is 
of grey cloth, with green and gold facings and trimmings. 

The officers on "Memorial Monday" were: Captain, Michael 
Griffin ; First Lieutenant, H. F. Brennan ; Second Lieutenant, B. 
Moran ; Orderly Sergeant, James O'Connell. 

Since September, an election has been held that resulted as fol- 
lows : Captain, Jos. H. Lawler ; First Lieutenant, Thos. McDonnough ; 
Second Lieutenant, L. Pluntener ; Junior Second Lieutenant, John 
H. Green; Sergeants, B. Moran, G. F. Tollan, \Vm. McGuirc, and 
P. Coyne. 

Several of the above named officers have seen military service in 



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the field in both hemispheres, as Captain Lawier, Lieutenant McDon- 
nough and Captain GrifHii. 



GERMAN GUARDS. 



This Company was formed in March, 1878, and Joined the German 
Battalion, then in course of organization as an independent corps. The 
(niards remained with the Battalion as Companj^ C up to February, 
1S8U. Then, the Battalion having entered the State National Guards, 
Company C withdrew, and kept up its independent organization, 
under the name ot the German Guards. 

The Company's uniform differs but little from that of the German 
iiattalion. Their equipment is complete, and whenever they appear 
on the streets, they invariably attract admiring attention by their 
line marching and accurate manoeuvring. Their headquarters are at 
No. 48 Bienville street. 

Their muster roll shows fifty active, thirtj'-five passive, and 
twenty-five honorary members. The Secretary of the Company is 
Henry Opitz ; the Treasurer, G. T. Schilling. The Officers in com- 
mand are : Captain, George Miiller ; First Lieutenant, O. A. P. Stoll ; 
Second Lieutenant, A. Wermes ; Feldwebel, W. A. Suhren. The com- 
mands are given in German and English. 

The Guards were to have participated, by invitation, in the cere- 
monies at President Garfield's inauguration", but were prevented by 
circumstances beyond their control. When the news of President 
Garfield's death was received, a prize drill and complimentary ball, 
that the Guards had prepared, were post])oned. A meeting of the 
Company was held, at which resolutions of regret for the death of the 
President, and sympathy for his family, were adopted. It was further 
determined that the Armory should be draped in mourning and that 
the members wear mourning badges for one month. 



THE IRISH RIFLES. 



The Irish Rifles, Company A, was organized in the year 1874, as 
an independent command. It has done its share of active duty, 
l^romptly and well, whenever called on since; and has maintained its 
organization despite many troublous events, such as epidemics. The 
Rifles are handsomely uniformed, well equipped and well drilled. 
Their rank and file number forty-eight men, officered by Captain 
John Fitzpatrick; First Lieutenant, Matt. Henry Kane; Second Lieu- 
tenant, Michael Ryan, and First Sergeant, P. M. Garry. The latter 
officer acted as commanding officer on the day of the Garfield Funeral 
C-eremonies. 



CAZADORES DE ORLEANS. 

This Company, composed of Spanish residents, was organized in 
May, 1877, as an independent command, iji October, 1879, it was re- 



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organized, so as to embrace the double qualities of a military company 
and a civic society. Its uniform is very eleg-ant — unlike any other 
in this country, yet strikingly soldierlike. The Comi)any, which 
is fully equipped and marches well, musters sixty active members, 
rank and tile, with fifty honorary members. The Otticers are : Captain, 
Jos6 Llado; First Lieutenant, Jaime Pons; Second Lieutenant, Jaime 
Anglada; Third Lieutenant, J. M. Laben. 



LOUISIANA FIELD ARTILLERY. 

The Louisiana Field Artillery was first organized in 1870, when, 
there appeared to have come a calm over the stormy sea of our local 
and State politics. The Regiment formed with the "First Regiment 
of Infantry" (not the jiresent one, of course) the revived Louisiana 
Legion, so popular in the olden times. The first Field Oflficers of the 
Artillery were: Colonel, C. W. Squires; Lieutenant Colonel, W. J. 
Behan ; and Major, G. LeGardeur, Jr., — all three ex-Confederate vet- 
erans. 

These and other strong battalions, well armed and equipped, were 
of the Division of State Troops, then organized in this city by the 
Republican State Government, and were commanded by INIajor Gen- 
eral Hugh Campbell, w^ho had been prominently active in Republican 
local and State polities. — It looked, for awhile, as if there were to be 
no more fierce party troubles in Louisiana. 

These hopes were dissipated by the famous " Warmoth-Carter " 
imbroglio of 1871, in which persons and parties were so commingled, 
that it w^as difficult at times to clearly understand the causes, details 
and results. 

The Artillery was on duty during that trying period, under orders 
from superior authority, when peace and^5rder were threatened, to pre- 
serve them. 

In 1872, Col. Squires resigned ; Lieut. Col. Behan was promoted 
Colonel of the Regiment; and the late M. Buck Miller was elected 
Lieutenant Colonel, Major LeGardeur waiving promotion in his favor. 

In 1873, when the Kellogg regime was first established, under the 
authority of the United States District Court, supported by the military 
authority of the United States, the Regiment recognized only Hon. 
John McEnery as the legally elected Governor. It refused to obey 
orders from Gov. Kellogg : and prepared, in its armory in Davidson's 
Court, on Carondelet street, to resist an attack threatened, after a de- 
mand for surrender, by the admirably drilled and well-armed Metro- 
politan Police, under General A. S. Badger. The Federal authorities 
at Washington interfered, and the Regiment surrendered its arms to 
General Smith, U. S. A. who acted under special orders. 

The Regiment ceased, ex-iiecessitate, to exist as an active uniformed 
corps ; but, nevertheless, to a certain degree retained its organization. 

When the decisive conte.st arose with Governor Kellogg in the fall 
of 1874, the officers and men of the regiment, as members of the cele- 
brated "Crescent City White League," took an active part in the 
armed conflict that is "now historical. The loss of life on both sides 
was a sad comment on the deplorable condition of our affairs ; but the 
serious attention of the whole country was thereby aroused and con- 



190 APPENDIX. 



centrated upon tlieni ; and thus made the subsequent establishment of 
tlio Nieholls' j^ovornment over that of Governor Packard, a question 
of national policy that fortunately was settled without bloodshed. 

Tliese topics, facts and matters of personal mention would not be 
recalled in this book, but that the history of the Louisiana Field Artil- 
lery, as one united corps, was so closely and constantly bound up in 
them. 

The former foes have since shaken hands; and the brave men on 
both sides who met each other in battle array in those dark days, have 
often met since in amicable intercourse. 

When the Regiment was tinally reorganized under its present title, 
after these troubles of 1S7-1-7 were over. Colonel John Glynn, Jr., who 
had commanded it during that period and for some years after, be- 
came Brigadier General of the First Brigade, L. S. N. G. ; and in Feb- 
ruary, 188U, the present accompiished commander, Lieutenant Colonel 
Gustave LeGardeur, Jr., became the Colonel. Captain James D. Ed- 
wards, of Battery B, was elected Lieutenant Colonel. In 1874,' Cajitain 
Bouny, of Battery A, became Major. He resigned in 1880; and Cap- 
tain J. Xunia Augustin became Major. — The Regiment has had the 
good fortune to retain most of its original officers. 

Tlie uniform, showy yet approijriate and soldierlike, has been 
briefly described on page 73 of this work, where appears also a full roll 
of the 1^'ield and tStatf, the Non-Commissioned Staff, and the Line Offi- 
cers, as they appeared on the 26th September last in the Procession. 

The Regimental Armory was long in the Mechanics' Institute edi- 
fice—formerly the State House— on Dryades street; but it is now in 
the rear halls of the Washington Artillery Arsenal, Carondelet street 
front. 

Whenever called on for service the Command has shown itself 
l)rompt to respond. For example, when it was reported here in 1880, 
that a serious riot was under way in one of the river Parishes, the Regi- 
ment received orders at 10 P. M. to assemble at the armory, and by 4 
o'clock the next morning it vfcjs on its way to the scene of trouble. 

Among the notable events in which the Regiment has participated 
of late years, was the public reception of General Grant, in which full 
military honors were jmid him; the public reception of the Northern 
Soldiery who visited our city in February, 1871 ; the Garfield Obsequies 
last September, and the review tendered in December, 1881, by the 
(lovernor as a compliment to the visiting French officers, headed by 
(kiieral Boulanger. 

In the disastrous overflow of a large part of the city, in April, 1881, 
this Regiment, with the other commands of General Glynn's Brigade, 
did good service, under his orders, in protecting the provision depots, 
and in distributing the supplies, far and wide, among the thousands 
who were " under water." 

The Regiment is thoroughly drilled as inftmtry and artillery, and 
its e(]uii)ment in both services is excellent. The guns are four 12 lb. 
Napoleons and two 1-inch Catlings. There are Ave full Companies 
or Batteries in the command, of which A, B, C and D, in the city, 
and K Battery, at Donaldsonville, officered by Captain E. Prosper 
Landry; First Lieutenant, J. T. Nolan ; First Lieutenant, Jr., E. N. 
I'ugh, and Second Lieutenant, L. A. Landry. 

lidttrry .L— This Conqiany, as at present organized, represents the 
" Roman Rifles," formed in the Fifth Ward during the summer of 1874, 
and officered by Captain Chas. Roman ; First Lieutenant, P. L. Bouny; 



APPENDIX. 101 



Second Lieutenant, P. E. Durand, and Second Lieutenant, Jr., B. 
Surrat, — all representatives, with the noii-coniniissioned otlicers and 
jjrivates, of our old Creole families. 'I'he Hides took a very active part 
in the memorable events of that year, and of a later period. When 
the Louisiana Field Artillery was reorjianized as part of the State 
Militia under its present title,' the Rides, with P. L iJouny as (.'aptain, 
J. Numa Augustin as First Ijieutenant, Andre Roman as Second Ijicu- 
tenant, and A. ('. Landry as Second Junior Lieutenant, l)ecame '• Bat- 
tery A." Captain Bouny's promotion to the ISlajority in 1.S79 made 
Lieutenant Augustin, Cai)tain. He being i)r()moted in ISSd, Lieutenant 
A. C Landry became Captain; and he resigning in Issl, was succeede<i 
by Captain Geo. Chiapella, the present elhcient commander of the 
Battery. 

Baffer)/ C.—Vnder Captain John Glynn, Jr., this Company had. 
several men killed and wounded in the " 11th September " fight. In 
1878, during the terrible epidemic, the Company reported in a body 
to the Howard Association, and were assigned to duty as nurses.— The 
first Captain of Hhe Company after the reorganized Regiiuent entered 
the militia, was E. A. Guibert. He died after a short service ; and was 
succeeded by Captain Michel J. P'ortier, who is still in command.— 
Captain F'ortier is recognized as one of the most proficient artillery 
officers in the country, and his battery ranks with the best.— At the 
sharply contested drill of the inter-State competition, at Nashville, he 
won the second prize, and in May, 188L at the inter-State drill at our 
Fair Grounds, he won the first prize over well trained competitors 
from Mobile and St. Louis, as well as detachments from Batteries B 
and D of his own Regiment. In both competitions, the Judges were 
U. S. Ai-ray officers. The men who won these prizes, under his orders, 
were : Fred Kornbeck, gunner ; S. Baudier, No. 1 ; E. Peralta, No. 2 ; 
E.J. Soniat, No. 3; E. Bercegeay, No. -4; Geo. Schomberg, No. 5 ; 
Geo. Stern, No. 6 ; C. Calongne", No. 7. Captain Fortier liad charge 
of the guns that fired the salute when tiie French military guests 
reviewed the First Division, in December. Pieces, horses, officers, 
men, and equipments were in tip-top order, and did honor to Captain 
Fortier's care and skill. 

Battery i?. -This Company was organized in October, 1870. with 
W. J. Behan as Captain. He becoming Colonel of the Regiment, was 
succeeded by Captain Ed. Montgomery ; but that fine officer's health 
had been injured during war service with the Army of Tennessee, and 
he resigned "and died soon after. 

His successor was Captain .Tames D. Edwards, who held the posi- 
tion for eight years. When he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel of 
the Regiment, Wm. H. Beanham, who had entered the Company as a 
private in 1870, was elected Captain, and still holds the position, for 
which he is eminently fitted. 

First Lieutenant H. B. Thompson also entered the Company in 
1870 as a private, and has risen, step by step. Lieutenants Kerr and 
Lynd have been with the Company a number of years. First Ser- 
geant Hamilton has been the Orderly Sergeant from the first, prefer- 
ring that position, and waiving all rights to promotion ; and of the 
seventy-two active members now on the rolls, over one-fourth have 
been there since 1870,— a rare and most complimentary i-ecord for any 
volunteer command. 

Genial Captain Beanham went with the Continental Guards as a 
volunteer in the ranks, in their famous excursion to Boston, and par- 



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ti('ii)ated in the celebration of the buttle of Bunker Hill, in June, 1880. 
AVlien the Boston Lancers and Charlestown Cadets returned the Con- 
tinentals' visit, in February, 1881, Battery B, vnider Captain Bean- 
ham, fired the welcoming and parting salutes, and exerted themselves 
in every way to assist the Continentals in making their guests not only 
comfortable, but "happy." 

The following is the roll of Battery B on the day of the Garfield 
memorial ceremonies : 

Officers: Captain, Wm. F. Beanham ; First Lieutenant, H. B. 
Thompson ; Junior First Lieutenant, F. M. Kerr ; Second Lieutenant, 
Ueo. Lynd. 

Non-CoiiimisHioned Officers : Orderly Sergeant Hamilton ; Color 
Sergeant John P. Beanham ; Sergeants, F. C. Sallean, J. H. Ham- 
mett, H. A. Despomier, S- J. Bowles, F. McKeough, J. H. Leary : — 
Color Corporal, C. J. Spear; Corporals, J. N. McGonnell, John Bar- 
rett, W. R Verlander, R. B. Beecher, T. G. Chandler, Geo. B. McGon- 
nell, C. H. Nobles, H. B. Bowles. 

Frivates: Gus. Aarons, ¥^. W. Benton, W. Brindle, V. G. Clann, 
J. Claverie, Jr., L. D^jan, W. Eicholz, Geo. Grundeman, John Hofl- 
man, D. S. Hamilton, G. T. Hebert, H. J. Knight, Thos. Keating, J. 
W. McDuff, J. McMahon, J. I). McClelland, E. Moses, G. A. Mallory, 
R. Pruyne, J. W. Riley, J. Rosch, H. H. Seymour, T. S. Shuber, B. 
R. Shakelford, C. A. Thomas, J. A. Vaughan. 



"OLD JORDAN." 

In the person of this veteran colored drummer, — Jordan B. Noble 
by name, — some seventy years of the military history of the United 
States were represented in the procession of September 26th. In ante- 
bellum days, everybody in New Orleans knew "Old Jordan." At 
every parade of civic or military organizations, his excellent fife and 
drum band were certain to be heard ; and, assuredly, for marching pur- 
poses, no other music and no other band could compete with them. 
They had been so long together that they played in perfect unison, and 
the spirit and life they threw into their strains, set even the most 
sluggisli souls all agog with animation.— Even at this late day, memory 
recalls those cheerful sounds ; and the fifes and drums once more make 
the air nielodious with "Oh! Susannah! don't you ciy for me!" or, 
" Take your time, Miss Lucy! Take your time. Miss Lucy Long! " 

Wliatever may have become of " Susannah," or whatever may have 
been tlie destiny of " Miss Lucy Long," since those bright, cheery days 
when we went gypsying,—" Old Jordan," strong and portly, is still 
about; and, despite his eighty-one years, walks the streets as a sedate 
looker-on, reads the papers, writes letters, chats with old acquaintances, 
watches the military parades with interest, and stoutly maintains his 
ability still to rLil)-a-dub-dub allits music out of a drum. 

From his own manuscript, we ieirn that he was born in Georgia, 
Octol)er 14th, 1800, and came to New Orleans in 1812. Better now let 
the old man tell his own story : "1 was enlisted a drummer," he writes, 
" in the Seventh Regiment, U. S. Infantry, in 1S13, Major Minis com- 
" manding ; and served under him until December 23, 1814, when Major 
" Penn, of the Forty-fourth Regiment, took command, and led us 
" against the British, in the battle of the 23d of December, 1814. He 



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" conimandod our regiinont at ("amp Jackson, until the British retired 
" from before New Orleans, January 12th, 1H15. I was in all the 
"battles, under (Toneral Jackson, in that campaign." 

" Lively times, Jordan," said the Compiler. "Yes, sir," he replied ; 
" and tine times for us; but "—and the old soldier's eyes twinkled, — 
" the British didn't like 'em." 

In the Florida War, in 1S8(>, Jordan volunteered in the First Lou- 
isiana Brigade, e tmmanded by General Persifor F. Smitli. In 1S4H, 
wlien the war with Mexico began, and (General Taylor was in danger 
on the Rio (Grande, Jordan again volunteered, joining Company H., 
Captain J. M. Vandegrifi; in ('olonel J- B. Walton's Louisiana Regi- 
ment. 

In the civil war, Jordan served in the Federal Arn)y, holding a 
Captain's commission in the Seventh Louisiana Colored Volunteers, 
in 18B3, under General Emory. He holds honorable discharges from all 
his commanders ; and still keeps, intact, the shell of the drum that he 
beat in 1812-15, in l.sSli, and 1H4(). It and its owner have been in four 
wars, and are therefore well deserving this special notice. 



THE WASHINGTON ARTILLERY. 



ITS EARLY DAYS AND FIRST COMMANDERS. 

The First Company, Native American, was the name of an artillery 
company that, from IS'SS or 1839 on, was well known in New Orleans, 
especially in what was then known as the American part of the city — 
that above Canal street, including the Second Municipality and the 
City of Lafayette; and with Samuel J. Peters, James A. Caldwell, 
Wagner, Recorder Baldwin, Leeds, Freret, Story, Heartt, Robb, Christy, 
Shirk, Mudge, Hewlett, Avery, Rushton, Hodge, Peyton, Shaw, Bul- 
litt, Winston, Freret, etc., among its leading spirits. 

Tlie ( aptain of this Artillery Company was Henry Forno, a natural 
born soldier, gifted with the genius of command,— as he showed in after 
years in Virginia, under Lee and Jackson. The Company was the 
"forerunner of the Washington Artillery, which had Captain 
Stockton as its first commander. He was succeeded by Captains Allen 
Hill, Ealer and R. O. Smith. Then General E. L. Tracy was for 
awhile acting Captain— the Company being in his Brigade ;— then 
Captain Soria commanded, until he was accidentally killed. Lieuten- 
ant H. I. Hunting succeeded him; and then Captain J. B. Walton 
was unanimously elected, and has been with the Washington Artillery 
ever since. Its name and his are indissolubly connected, in Southern 
military history. 

In 1861. 

When the great civil war began, the Washington Artillery 
prepared energetically and promptly to take the field. Four full Com- 
panies were organized, and a Battalion thoroughly drilled and thor- 
oughly equipped. A Committee was sent to Montgomery to tender the 
services of the Corps to the Confederate Authorities, for the war. The 
offer was at once accepted ; and on Sunday morning, May 26th, 1861, 
the Battalion, drawn up in Lafayette Square, was naustered into the 

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Confederate military service, by Tjieutenant Phifer, mustering officer. 
Tlie Battalion then marelied toClirist Cliurch, on Canal street, where 
their new flag was formally consecrated. The officers and men occu- 
pied the central pews, and were addressed by the Rector, Rev. Dr. 
Leacock, in a sermon still remembered as one of profound feeling and 
eloquence. 

The Hag alluded to, — a beautiful one, — had been presented to the 
Battalion the previous day, Saturday, May 25th, at the residence of 
Mr. T. C. Twichell, on 8t. Charles street, next door to where the Bat- 
talion's Arsenal now is. Mr. Twichell made the presentation for his 
wife and other ladies, and Colonel Walton received the flag in one of 
his brief but effective speeches. 

THE MUSTER ROLL. 

The following is the roll of the Battalion, as published in the 
city papers of Sunday, May 27th, 1861. 

Field AND Staff.— Major J. B. Walton ; Adjutant, Lieutenant 
W. Miller Owen ; Quartermaster, Lieutenant Cutlibert H. Slocomb ; 
Surgeon, Dr. K. S. Drew. 

NoN-CoMAiissioNED Staff. — Sergeant-Major, C. L. C. Dupuy ; 
Color Sergeant, Louis M. Montgomery ; Quartermaster Sergeant, 
Stringer Kennedy. 

Color Guard. — Corporal George W. Wood ; Corporal E. J. 
Jewell ; Corporal A. H. Peale ; Corporal J. H. Dearie. 

P^'irst Company. — Captain, Harry M. Isaacson; First Lieutenant, 
G. W. S(iuires ; First Lieutenant, Junior, J. B. Ricliardson ; Second 
Lieutenant, H. G. Geiger. 

First Detachment: First Sergeant, Edward Owen ■; First Corporal, 
F. D Ruggles. Privates : W. Chambers, G. M. Judd, Edwin J. Kur- 
sheedt, J. W. Kearney, W. F. Perry, C Rossiter, J. E. Rodd, T. S. 
Turner. — Second Detachment : Second Sergeant, J. M. Galbraith ; 
Second Corporal, E. C. Payne. Privates : A. F. Coste, E. A. Cowen, 
H. Crammin, W. T. Hardie, J. M. Payne, J. R. McGaughy, F. A. St- 
Amant, R. M. K. Spearing. — Third Detachment: Third Sergeant, 
C. H. C. Brown ; Third Coporal, W. Fellows, Sr. Privates : T. Y. 
Aby, C. Chambers, J. E JarKeaud, L. Labarre, G. W. Morse, P. A. J. 
Michel, M. Mount, J. A. Tarleton.— i^owr^A Detachment : Fourth Cor- 
poral, F. F. Case. Privates : G. B. DeRussey, C A. Everett, W. R. Fal- 
coner, F. Lobrano, J. P. Manico, G. V. Wiltz, L. E. Zebal, H. L. Zebal. 
— Artificers: W. D. Holmes, S. G. Stewart, Israel Scott. — Drivers: 
Sergeant, Geo. Bernard ; John Anderson, Matthew Burns, Jno. 
Charlesworth, W. R. Dirke, Jno. Eseheman, Wni. Forest, Michael 
Hoch, Jno. L. Hoch, Jas. Hofligh, Jno. Jacobs, Thos. Kerwin, Fred 
Lester, Pat Mooney, H. Meyer, David Nolan, R. Nicholas, Jno. 
O'Neil, Chas. Rush," John Wilson. 

Si:coND Company. — First Lieutenant, C. C- Lewis, commanding ; 
First Lieutenant, Junior, Samuel McPherson ; Second Lieutenant, C- 
H. Slocomb. 

First Detachment : First Sergeant, Jos. H. DeGrange : First Cor- 
poral, J. D. Edwards. Privates : Sam Hawes, H. M. Payne, J. S. 
Meyers, Tracy Twieliell, J. J. Land, J. W. Emmett, J. A." Hall, G- 
Humphrey. — Second Detachment : Second Sergeant, Gustave Aime ; 

Second Corporal, C. E. Leverich. Privates : J. D. Hritton, Rau- 

dolj)li, W. E. Florance, J. W. Parsons, J. Howard Goodin, Thos. H. 
Suter, F. Allenal, F. O. Buckner.— 7'Airf? Detaclunent : Tliird Ser- 



jj,'(.'ant, H. C. Wood; Tliird Corporal, Julius Freret Privates: W. 
V. Girtl'ii, L. C. VVoodville, A. A. Briiisniade, F.. L. Hall, It. Axson, 
Will. Roth, E. D. I'atton, A. C Kni^^ht.— Fourth JMiie/unetif : Fourth 
Sergeant, ('. Huchez; Fourth Corporal, B. V". L. Hutton. Privates : 
(x. E. Sirawhridge, A. U. Blakeley, U. Baiuiisler, Jr., U. C Lewis, H. 

B. Bertlielot, W.J. Hare, J. H. Kaudolph, W. H. Wllkius.— ^l?-i:/y/- 
ccrs: John Montgomery, Leonard Craig. Drlvcru : John Weher, 
Toney Hulhy, John Fagant, Cieo. Barr, Win. Carey, B. B. F. McKes- 
son, Will. Little, Jas. Crilly, John Cannon, Jas. Leyden, Fd. Loilus, 
Kdwin Lake, Jas. Brown, M. F. Lynch, Louis liouch, Wiii. Oliver, 
Cor'l Mc Gregor, Alexander Bucher. 

Thiki) Company.— Captain, M. Buck Miller; First Lieutenant, 
J. B. Whittington ; Second Lieutenant, L. A. Adam.— First Sergeant, 
L'rank McElroy ; Second Sergeant, A. V. Hero ; Third Sergeant, L. 
Brados; Fourth Sergeant, J. T. Handy. — First Corporal, E. J. Jewell ; 
Second Corporal, A. H. Beale ; Third Corporal, W. H.Ellis; Fourth 

Corporal, Collins.— Privates : Napier Bartlett, H. D. Summers, J. 

H. Moore, W. Mills, llohert Bruce, J.J. Holmes, T. H. Futjua, O. N. 
DeBlanc, A. W. Morgan, P. W. Pettis, E. Riviere, F. Jvremelburg, 
Chas. Hart, Samuel C. Boush, Geo. McNeil, J. H. CoUis, Frank Shaw, 
W. S. Toledano, E. Toledano, P. O Fazende, Fred Hubbard, Jos. De 
Meza, L. E. Guyot, J. F. Randolph, S. Behalaron, J. T. Breulord, C 
W. Deacon, Stringer Kennedy, Howard Tully, Win. Leete, J. W. 

Brown, C. H. Stocker, J. R. Porter, S. G. Sanders, B. L. Braselman, 

Plutigne, C. E. Fortier, R.Maxwell, Emile Anvil, Ernest Charpuian, T. 
M. McFall, M. W. Cloney, Ed. Duncan, C. A. Falconer, H. J. Phelps, 
T. Balentine, Samuel W. Noyes, M. W. Chapman, W. R. Noble, W. 

C. Coyle, F. A. Coyle, L. P. Forshe. J. C. Mloonxlliiid.—ArUJicers : 
Jos. Blanchard, Jas. Keating. 

Fourth Company.— Captain, B. F. Eschleman; First Lieutenant, 
Joe. Norcom ; 8ecoiid Lieutenant, Harry A. Battles.— Second Sergeant, 
W. J. Behan ; Third Sergeant, Geo. E. Apps ; Fourth Sergeant, J. D. 
Reynolds.— First Corporal, George Wood; Second Corporal, J. H. 
Dearie.— Privates : A. D. Augustus, B. F. Wridler, J. R. McGowan, 
J. M. Rohbock, H. F. Wilson, C. C. Bier, J. C. Wood, Jno. S. Finch, 
h\ A. Brodie, Bernard Hutte, G. L. Cratclier, J. F. Lilly, T. G. Stewart, 
Samuel A. Knox, Wm. Palfrey, L. C Lewis, J. H. Smith, G. Mont- 
gomery, Isaac Jessup, A. F. Vass, AV. W. Jones, P. C. Lane, T. Carey, 
W. P. S. Creary, W. C Morrell, W. T. O'Neil, A. Banksmith, Frank 
Williams, E. Lauer, G. Beck, R. F. ¥. Moore, Henry H. Baker, J. W. 
Burke, Jno. Meux, J. V. Valentine, Phil. Vancolin, T. B. White, H. 
H. White, Jno. B. Chastant, W- J. Sneed, H. D. Seaman, Jr., E. 
H. Bee, C. W. Marston, C. A. Deval, E. A. Mellard, J. W. Wilcox, V. 

D. Terrebonne, E. T. Reichart, Thos. H. Cummings, R. H. Gray, J. T, 
Hale, W. J. Lecesne, E. Toubert, Chas. Hardenburg, J. C. Purdy.— 
Artificers: Levy Callahan, Jno. McDonnell. 

Battalion Band: J. V. Gessner, leader; T. Gutzler, Ch. W. Struve, 
J. Arnold, John Deutsche, Jno. Geches, Peter Trum, Jno. Lorbs, Thos. 
Kostmel, J. H. Sporer, Chas. Meier. 

Buglers: F. P. Villasana, William Fletcher. 

DEPARTURE FOR VIRGINIA. 

It was announced in the papers of Monday morning. May 27th, 
that the Battalion would take their departure for Richmond, Va., that 
afternoon, by the Jackson Railroad, and the whole city was aroused by 



liX; APPENDIX. 



the news. Lieutenant W. Irving Hodgson, conunanding the active 
members— reserves — who remained in the city, published an order to 
thoni and the honorary members to meet at the Arsenal, on Girod street, 
in the afternoon, to act as an escort to the Battalion. 

Tlie four Companies of the Battalion formed in Lafayette Square, 
the Drivers composing a fifth Comi)any. The escort was composed 
of the Company under Lieutenant Plodgson, the Louisiana Cadets, the 
Orleans Guards, some four hundred strong, and the Orleans Light 
Horse, Captain Leeds. Then the Battalion drew up in front of the 
City Hall, and were addressed by Rev. Dr. Palmer, in most impressive 
style. The five Companies responded by three cheers for the "Southern 
Confederacy," and three more for the " Old Dominion," to which the 
multitude of enthusiastic spectators replied by cheer upon cheer for the 
Artillery. The column marched down St. Charles to Canal street, 
down ('anal to Camp; up Camp to Calliope, and thence out to the 
Jackson Railroad Depot. Thousands accompanied them — the ladies 
numbering hundreds upon hundreds — and even after the long train 
started, the excited multitude followed as far out as the swamp. — It was 
a memorable event even in those memorable days. 

The Battalion took with them their own uniforms, equipments 
and ariud complete, including their field pieces and the harness. The 
horses were obtained in Virginia. — Their journey to Richmond was a 
series of ovations. 

They went under Are, for the first time, at Bull Run, followed by 
the First Manassas, and at once established their reputation, beyond 
controversy, as unsurpassable artillerists. From that date to the sur- 
render at Appomattox, the record of the Battalion is historical. 

ANOTHER COMPANY. ' 

Not satisfied with the quota furnished to the Army of Virginia, the 
active members at home— the reserves alluded to— determined that the 
Battalion should be also represented in the Army of Tennessee. Ac- 
cordingly, a full Company— known as the Fifth— well armed, drilled 
and equipped, was organized, and, under the command of Captain W. 
Irving Hodgson, proceeded to join Beauregard and Albert Sidney 
Johnston. They were put under fire at Shiloh, by Beauregard himself; 
distinguished themselves there ; and— Captain C. H. Slocomb succeed- 
ing Captain Hodgson later on— earned a brilliant reputation, remaining 
under arms until General Dick Taylor surrendered. 

HOME AUAIN. 

On their return to New Orleans, the surviving members organized 
an Association for benevolent purposes. The ranks of the tive Com- 
panies had been sadly d-epleted during four years of active service, but 
the old comrades were true to each other, despite all adversities. Mr. 
Thos. L. Bayne was chosen president of the Association. The amount 
disbursed by it for the wounded, sick, and necessitous has been very 
large. 

A NEW BIRTH. 

In July, 1875, with a view, first, to reorganizing the old Battalion 
on a military basis, and then, in a body, to visit the great Centennial 
Fxhibition at Philadelphia, in 1876, a numl)erof the Veterans assembled 
in priliiuinary meeting at Hawkins' Club Rooms. Colonel J. B. Wal- 
ton presided, and seventy-nine names were signed to the roll. 

At the second meeting, fifty-four more names, all of veterans, w^ere 



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signed. It was determined to organize three Companies, and that 
none should be received in the)n who had not served in tlie army. 

Colonel J. B. Wallon was then, amidst great enthusiasm, unani- 
mously elected to command the Kattalion. His reply was hrit-f, but to 
the p(")int; and, referring to the proposed visit to tiic Cenlcnnial, he 
said : " They were to go among men against whom tiicy had t'ougiit in 
" battle, and great good, he thouglit, would result from tlie visit. He 
" had never known a move that seemed to gi^^e more general satisfac- 
" tion in the community." 

W. J. Behan was then elected Major; and M. Buck Miller, J. A. 
Chalaron and John B. Richardson Captains of Companies A, B and 
C respectively. 

THE THREE COMPANIES. 

The drawing for membership of the three companies was next in 
order, and resulted as follows : 

Company A:— Geo. E. Apps, O. S. Babcock, T. L. Bayne, Ben 
Bridges, S. A. Bryan, M. J. Bebee, C H. C Brown, J. P. Benton, 
J. S. Bradley, John Bradley, Napier Bartlett, Wm. A. Collins, E. A. 
Clark, A. 8. Cowan, Chas. Cotting, Mike Cloney, T. Carter, H. Dud- 
ley Coleman, Henry Carey, 8. W. Deuxpsey, Ceo. W. Bupr6, J. D. 
Edwards, P. O. Fazende, H. Guillotte, Andrew Hero, Jr., Charles A. 
Harris, W. D. Henderson, Minor Kenner, Dan Kelley, Pat Lehay, 
Chas. Leverich, A. Luria. A. G. Lobdell, R. McMillan, Peter Michel, 
J. J. Madden, E. Peychaud, W. T. O'Neal, J. Rousseau, C. McC. Selph, 
C. Stocker, W. Tynan, Frank Ulrich, L. E. Zebal, and H. L. Zebal. 

Company B : E. D. Augustus, Charles M. Byrne, Robert Bruce, 
James Bloomlield, W. W- Charleton, E. O. Cook, Frank Case, W. H. 
Cantzan, E. A. Conan, Geo. W. Charleton, J. D. Carpenter, C. T. Cow- 
and, C. C Dupuy, Joseph DeGrange, Pat Eagan, B. F. Eschleman, J. 
Farrell, G. J. Freret, W. C. Giffen, John Garrity, L. M- Girard, E. L. 
Hews, W. H. Holmes, John Holmes, G. R. P. Jones, A. M. Laffing- 
ton, Gus. Leefe, C. C. Lewis, R. A. McDonough, Gus. Micou, L. L. 
Miller, John Metzler, John Meux, John B. Marsh, John Miller, W. 
Miller Owen, Wm. Oliver, J. R. Porter, Wm. Palfrey, Chas. Palfrey, 
A. H. Peale, Lewis Roache, Will Steven, J. M. Seixas, Frank Shaw, 
A. Schnexaydre, E. P. Villasana, and J. B. Whittington. 

Company C : L. A. Adam, F. M. Andrews, A. A- Brinsmade, 
Frank A. Bartlett, J. A. Blafler, W. P. Brewer, F. A. Behan, John 
Bozant, Henry H. Baker, W. G. Coyle, Ed. Collins, Denis Cronan, 
Geo. Crawford, G. B. DeRussey, H. Deitz, E. S. Drew, Jno. W. Emmett, 
W. H. Ellis, J. Fagan, Bernard Hoft, H. M. Isaacson, J. H. Jagot, 
A. C. Jones, Edwin J. Kursheedt, A. M. Kelley, Douglas M. Kilpat- 
rick, L. B. Labarre, Frank Lobrano, C. L. Layman, Edgar Mayhan, 
J. McCormack, Frank McElroy, Henry Miller, H. H. Marks, John 

R. McGaughy, McCarthy, W. F. Pinkard, O. F. Peck, John N. 

Payne, T. G. Roebuck, N. A. Randolph, F. L. Richardson, Anthony 
Sambola, L. Schneider, B. Strong, E. S. Turpin, Fred N. Thayer, H. 
F. Wilson, and B. T. Walshe.— A total of one hundred and forty-one 
names. 

Not all these men had served in the Washington Artillery during 
the war,— some having served in other Louisiana conmiands; but, 
though the greater majority of them were young men, all had been 
often under fire, and quite a number could count up several scores of 
battles in which they had been engaged. 



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COMPANY OFFICERS. 

At the next meeting, thirty more members were enrolled. The 
C"()mj)any ortieers were then elected, as follows: t'oinpamj A : First 
Lieutenant, A. Hero, Jr. ; Junior First Lieutenant, Frank McElroy ; 
8eeond Lieutenant, (leo. E. Apps. — Comjjuny B : First Lieutenant, 
Eugene May; Junior First Lieutenant, Wni. Pallrey ; (Second Lieu- 
tenant, Wm. T. Hardie. — Company C : First Lieutenant, C. H. C. 
Brown ; Junior First Lieutenant, Geo. B. BeRussey ; Second Lieuten- 
ant, D. M. Kilpatrick ; Orderly 8ergeant, Harry M. Isaacson. 

STAFF APPOINTMENTS. 

Lt. Col. Walton then announced the following .stati" appointments, 
commissioned and non-commi.ssioned : Adjutant, W. Miller Owen; 
(ciuartermaster, John M. Payne; Commi.ssary, John Holmes; Ord- 
nance Otticer, W. B. Krumbhaar; Surgeon, Dr. Thos. Y. Aby. — Ser- 
geant Major, E. J. Kursheedt; Quartermaster Sergeant, Wm. H. Ellis; 
Commissary Sergeant, Mike Cloney; Ordnance Sergeant, O. F. Peck; 
Artificer and Armorer, J. W. Demiisey.— Color Corporals : H. J. Wil- 
son, W. C. Giffen, Gus. J. Freret. — Color Guard: J. W. Parsons, C. C. 
Lewis, Alex. H. Peale, Geo. W. Dupr6. — Lt. Col. Walton issued his 
first general order, August 4th, 1875. 

ON PARADE AGAIN. 

The first public parade of the new Battalion took place on the 8th 
of January, 1876, — the same day that the "Continentals" made their 
first appearance on the streets since the war. It was fifteen years since 
the old Companies had taken their departure for the battle fields of 
Virginia and Tennessee. What terrible scenes those veteran soldiers, — 
now marching quietly and steadily along — had gone through ! what 
sights witnessed ! what trials and sufferings endured ! — Perhaps the 
years that had elapsed since they surrendered their arms, had tried 
them more than war's fiercest contests. To scores of spectators— the 
older ones — the sight of the serried ranks and the familiar grey, re- 
called faces and forms that had once marched gaily along under the 
flag of the Washington Artillery — the same flag that now floated 
proudly over the glittering bayonets — but look eagerly as they might, 
from front to rear, the faces and forms were not there ! They would 
not be there again ; never again ! 

ARMORIES. 

The first armory of the new Battalion was in a large building on 
Perdido street, just back of the Masonic Hall, on St. Charles street. 
Then (|uarters were found on Common street, in the rear of the Gas 
Company's building, corner of Baronne. 

An interesting event there was their first inspection by General 
Beauregard, lately appointed Adjutant General of the State. Lt. Colonel 
W. M. Owen was in connnand ; and as the (jeneral, with him, passed 
slowly along the ranks, it was evident, despite his characteristic calm 
demeanor, that the close proximity — face to face, as it were — to so many 
of liis old soldiers, affected the General. The scene was a quiet one ; 
but it was watched with inten.se interest by a large number of invited 
guests, among them the officers of a Mexican war vessel, then in the 
river. What the veterans of over sixty battles themselves thought 
and felt, as they thus met the hero of Manassas for the first time, in 
tliis military array and ceremony, after .seventeen or eighteen years 



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separation— must be left to the imagination. They stood, under rigid 
discipline, like statues : silent, motionless, immovable. 

THK NKW ARSENAL. 

About, or over a year ago, the Battalion succeeded in purchasing 
tlieir present spacious Arsenal, already mentioned in tliis book. Three 
stories in height, very wide, and exte'nding from St. (.'harles to Caron- 
delet street, it alfords them ample accommodations for their own pur- 
l)oses; also for social entertainments, balls and concerts, and rooms 
and halls to be used by other military commands. 

The Artillery Armory proper is on the ground floor, entrance on 
St. Charles street. The guns, seven in number, of ditterent kinds, with 
limbers, caissons, etc., are near the entrance. The small arms are in 
racks, against the walls, to the rear, thus leaving an unencumbered 
area for the movements of a full Regiment. 

On the rear wall, over the desk of the officer presiding at meetings, 
is suspended the celebrated oil painting of the lamented artist, Julio, 
that represents the last interview of Lee and Jackson, .just as the latter 
was receiving his final instructions from his leader, ere beginning the 
lamous flank march against Hooker. The incident is historically correct, 
and the painter has depicted it admirably. 

THE DAUGHTERS OF LEE AND .lACKSON. 

This picture was the object of close inspection by Miss Mildred 
Lee, the daughter of General Robert E. Lee, when she was formally 
received by the Battalion, during a brief visit here. It was also 
examined with deep interest by the widow and daughter of Stonewall 
Jackson, last Spring, at a reception given them in the Arsenal, when 
the officers and men of the Artillery were introduced to the two ladies. 
Both receptions, with such illustrious guests for subjects, would have 
furnished happy illustrations for the painter's brush. 

OTHER INTERESTING OBJECTS. 

In the officers' or headquarters' room of the Battalion, is a large 
case, containing many war relics: the beautiful flag, already noted as 
having been presented in May, 1861, by Mrs.Twichell ; a Confederate bat- 
tle flasi presented to the Battalion in Virginia by Beauregard; an old and 
beautiful flag, of heavv red silk ground, with the arms of Louisiana em- 
broidered in the centre in white silk, and on both sides, near the 
edges, the names of over sixty battles that the Ave Companies were in ; 
and a fragment of the Battalion guidon flag, used in Virginia. The 
flag of thti Fifth Company, if we mistake not, is in the possession of 
the widow of the late Captain C. H. Slocomb.— In the reception room, 
opposite the officers' room, are oil paintings, portraits of Gen. Beau- 
regard and Col. Owen ; a portrait of Col. Walton ; a large medalion 
portrait in marble, relievo, of Adjutant Kursheedt; and a number of 
war maps, and other relics of interest. 

A VETERAN. 

The active and intelligent Armorer of the Battalion, Daniel 
Kelley, served through the Mexican war, and became a member of 
the Washington Artillery in February, 18.^)2. He has been with it 
ever since, and naturally takes a deep interest in every mcident and 
individual connected with its history. 

Before the civil war, Armorer Kelley was " No. 1 " of a piece put in 



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position on the Levee, at the foot of Canal street, to fire a salute in 
lionor of a British war vessel, on lier taking her departure. The 
salute, " a royal one," was tired in tlie fastest time on record ; and it 
was the subject of comment and praise in the military journals of the 
(lay, in tliis country and in Europe. 

THE LAST CAMP. 

The Battalion has erected a large and very handsome Tomb in 
the ^letairie Cemetery, wliich attracts the eye of every visitor to that 
{)ictures(iue spot. Above the Tomb stands, at ease, guarding the rest 
of his comrades below, a Confederate artilleryman, in uniform. The 
accuracy of the costume, natural attitude of the figure, and simple yet 
profound feeling it syml)olizes, are happy examples of the sculptor's 
chisel. Upon the tomb tablets is the muster roll of the Dead of the 
Washington Artillkby: "dead on the field of honor." 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

Colonel Walton withdrawing froiu active command in 1877, was 
elected " Honorary Colonel," and Captain W. Miller Owen was chosen 
liieutenant Colonel. He commanded uiitil December, 1879, with J. 
B. Richardson as Major, and E. J. Kursheedt as Adjutant. He then 
tendered his resignation to take effect February 23d, 1880. Major 
John B. Richardson took command in the interim and was elected 
Lieutenant Colonel in February, 1880, and Captain Eugene May, of 
Company B, was unanimously elected Major. See pages 70 and 71 for 
a list of the Staff and Line Officers in September last. 

The Bartalion was mustered into the Louisiana State National 
Guard in December, 1879, Gov. Nicholls, Gen. Beauregard. Gen. W. .1. 
Behan, and Col. Walton assisting at the ceremony. 

Adjutant Kursheedt was promoted to Adjutant of Gen. Meyer's 
Brigade, with tlie rank of Lieutenant Colonel. The Battalion parted 
with this efficient officer and old comrade with sincere regret. 

The " Veterans" of the Battalion some three years ago formed a 
special company under Ca])tain C. C. Dupuy. They appear on parade 
witli drawn sabres, instead of muskets. 

The Company Officers have undergone a number of changes since 
187"), and many new recruits— young men — have been added to the 
ranlis. One special feature of the command is, that when a man joins, 
he joins the Battalion as a whole, and not any one Company. Tliis 
identities every individual with the entire command, and ensures an 
active esprit de corjj's. 

The good feeling that suggested to the Battalion, on its reorganiza- 
tion in 187o, a trip to the Centennial Exhibition in 1876 — an excursion 
that they were compelled to forego, much to their regret— has gov- 
erned them ever sincre in their intercourse with the ex-Federal officers 
and soldiers. It is thus that the true soldiers on both sides have given 
a noble lesson worthy of example. 

THE ARTILLERY TO GARFIELD. 

Tlie Battalion, at their regular monthly meeting, two evenings after 
President (iarfield's deatli, autiiorized Colonel Ricliardson to appoint 
a committee, witli Colonel .1. B. Walton as chairman, to prepare mem- 
orial resolutions. The (Jojumittee's report, as follows, was unanimously 
adopted : 



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Hkadquarters Battai.ion WASiiiNdTON Artillkky,\ 
New Orleans, Hepteiuber 22, 1881. / 

"The Battalion Washington Artillery, of New Orleans, whilnt 
bowing in humble submis.sion to the mysterious will of God, at this 
solemn moment, in common with their fellow-eitizeiis in every jiart of 
this sorrowing nation, are desirous of giving expression of their horror 
of the awful crime which has deprived this great rei)ul)Hc of its chosen 
constitutional head, and of their sincere and heartfelt grief, that a 
brave soldier, a wise ruler and a good man in all the walks of life, 
should have been stricken down by the red hand of an assassin, while 
yet upon the threshold of his manhood and usefulness ; Therefore, be it 

''Resolved, By the Battalion Washington Artillery, in meeting as- 
sembled, that they recognize in the assassination of President James A, 
Garfield the country has lost a true friend to the constitution and laws, 
a just and unprejudiced ruler, a valorous and conscientious soldier, 
whose heroic bearing during the long period of his confinement, to the 
liour of his death, challenges the highest admiration and attests the 
greatness of the man. 

"A'ccso/t'erf, That we deplore the loss the country has sustained; 
that we contemplate with loathing and horror the act of the a.ssassin, 
which has in a time of profound peace and unexampled prosperity 
plunged fifty million people in mourning, and arrested the attention 
and sincere condolence, in an unexampled measure, of all civilized 
countries. 

''Resolved, That with the greatest admiration and respect we tender 
to the noble lady, now the widow of our murdered President, our heart- 
felt and sincere condolence in her great sorrow and altliction, com- 
mending her to the Father of all good, who, in His wise Providence 
'giveth and taketh away.' 

"Resolved, That a copy of the foregoing be transmitted to the Secre- 
tary of State of the United States for such" disposition as may be given 
to other similar resolutions." 

J. B. Walton, Honorary Colonel, Chairman ; H. M. Isaacson, 
Captain; Frank McElroy, Captain; D. M Kilpatrick, First Lieuten- 
ant; J. S. Richards, First Lieutenant ; A. Hero, Jr., StalF; Wm. 
Palfrey, Private : Committee. 

THE REPLY. 

Department of State, "i 

Washington, October 5th, 1881. / 

Lieutenant Colonel John B. Richardson, Battalion Washington Artillery, New 
Orleans, La. : 

"Sir: — Now that the onerous cares of public work permit due 
" acknowledgment of the countless heartfelt tributes of sympathy for 
" the family of President Garfield, and of respect for the memory of 
" the dead which come from every quarter of our common country, I 
" hasten to respond to your letter of the 22d ult. , enclosing the feeling 
" resolutions of condolence adopted on that day, at a meeting of the 
" members of your organization. 

" The spontaneity of this eloquent message is but in keeping with 
" the universal voice of our common country in its brotherhood of 
" keen sorrow ; and carries its fitting share of consolation to the be- 
" reaved widow and fatherless children in their deep anguish. 

" In their name, and expressing the common sentiment of the 



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" American people in this hour of widespread mourning, I return to 
" you and your generous-hearted comrades most sincere thanlvs. 



" 1 am, Sir, 

" Your oliedient servant, 

JAMES G. BLAINE. 



THE CIVIC ASSOCIATIONS. 



THE NEW ORLEANS LIEDERTAFEL. 

This Society was organized in the month of February, 1872, at No. 
20 Exchange Alley under the name of " Deutschkk Maenner Ges- 
ANGVEREiN," or the German Male Singing Society. It had a member- 
ship of about thirty, officered as follows : President, Dr. F. Wilhoft 
Vice President, M. F- Sibilsky ; Recording Secretary, J. P. Hand 
Financial Secretary, R. H. Benners ; Treasurer, Reinhardt Wirth 
Librarian, Heinrich Sporer; Musical Director, Otto Weber. 

The numbei's soon increased to over one hundred, and the Society's 
career was one of the most genial, social amusement and pleasure. 

In the month of December, 1878. the " Maenner Gesangverein " 
and the " New Orleans Liederkranz," a singing society Avhich had its 
place of meeting at the corner of Chippewa and Philip streets, agreed 
to combine and form but one Society. This was effected, and it was 
determined to name the new organization the New Orleans Lied- 

ERTAFEL 

The Carnival season of 1879 brought a great many new names to 
the roll of members, which has ever since been steadily increas- 
ing. Also came with them a good many lady singers ; aiid, of late, 
there has been enrolled a large number of scholars, both boys and 
girls, who receive a musical education at the expense of the Society. 

The Liedertafel celebrated in October, 1880, the opening of the 
New Orleans and Texas Railroad, by inviting the Texas Singing Soci- 
eties and holding a three days' festival, in which were given two 
grand vocal and instrumental concerts — one at the Spanish Fort Park, 
and one at the West End,— winding up with a grand torchlight pro- 
cession, and a brilliant evening entertainment on tiie third day at 
(h'unewald Hall, in which the New Orleans German-Turners, the 
(jerman Battalion and the German Guards also participated. 

Tlie LiEDERTAFEL has now over nine hundred members, and a 
Ciiorus of about one hundred excellent and well-trained voices. It is 
the only German Singing Society in this city, and its beneficial and 
wholesome influence is widely felt. 

Its entertainments are of the choicest kind, and whilst thoroughly 
rechercliL' are, at the same time, gleeful and joyous. 

The LiEi>ERTAFEL members, however, are not alone found 
where mirth and merriment reign supreme. They also devote them- 
selves to ciiaritable purposes, and are not missing at festivals given for 
tlie suffering, tlie widow and the fatherless. 

When tlie sad news of President Garfield's death was received, the 
Li EDERTAFEii at once ceased their musical and social gatherings for 
anausement and recreation ; and, mourning sincerely the great loss 
their country had sustained, determined to attend, in a body, the 



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obsequies aniiouticed by the city authorities. Tliey promptly acceded 
to the request of Mayor »shakspeare and Administrator \\ alslie, cliair- 
man of the City (.•oiiimittce, for them to siuu; (hiring the funeral cere- 
mouies in the'Washington Artillery Hall; and all who heard them 
there well rememl)er how much tender beauty their admirable sing- 
ing of iSIendelssohn's " I'arting Hymn" and 8ilcher's "Choral" 
added to the impressive solemnity of the proceeciings. 

Recently, the Liedkhtafel removed their headtiuarters to the 
upper stories of the building, corner of Canal street and Exchange 
Place— forjuerly occupied by the " Pickwick Club." There they have 
ample acconnnodation. The halls and rooms having been elegantly 
fitted up, the Likdektafei. opened tlieir new club rooms to their 
gentlemen and lady members and friends with an elegant entertain- 
ment, in which music predominated, and which heralded auspiciously 
many seasons to come of refined and cheerful enjoyment. 

The list of Officers of the Liedektafel is given on pages 88 and 
89, as they appeared in the Third Division. 



ITALIAN MUTUAL BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION. 

This A.ssociation was organized in the fall of 1851 ; and incorpor- 
ated under the general law of this State on the 12th of December of that 
year. The act of incorporation was drawn up by John Claiborne, the 
well-known notary public of those days. The original incorporators 
were Messrs. Charles J. Mansoni, Angelo Binaghi, Achille Perelli, 
Guiseppe Lanata, B. Blardone, Rocco Santini, and Joseph Genois— 
names still well remembered as those of leading citizens of New Or- 
leans 

The title of the Association was prescribed to be " The New Or- 
leans Italian jNlutual Benevolent Society," and its object : " To assist, 
and relieve its members, their wives and children, when sick or in ex- 
treme necessity ; and to give burial to those of them who pass from j 
this to a better life,"— the latter object to be eilected by the construe- j 
tion of a tomb. . 

The active members were required to be native born Italians, or 
born in islands geographically Italian, or their sons born and residing 
in this State. Honorary members were receivable, without regard to 
birth place. The Officers to be: A President, (an Italian by birth, and 
a citizen of the United States); a Vice President, a Secretary and a j 
Treasurer ; aided by a Committee of Inspection— all to be elected by 
ballot, annually. The transactions were required to be all recorded in 
the Italian language. 

The Society was chartered for a period of twenty years. 1 he act of 
incorporation was approved, as required by law, by Mortimer M. Rey- 
nolds, State District Attorney here ; then by Governor Joseph Walker; 
and then enrolled by Hon. Charles Gayarre, Secretary ol State, at 
Baton Rouge, then the capital,— on the 14th of January, 18o2. 

The Society at once completed its organization by electing G. A. 
Barelli (the Sicilian Consul,) iis President ; John Manzoni, Vice Pres- 
ident- A. G. Alvares, Treasurer, and G. Calcaterra, Secretary. Those who 
knew' the late Mr. Barelli will remember him as a man of fine pres- 
ence, cultivated intellect, amiable disposition, and courteous nuinner. 
He was besides an enterprising merchant and public spirited citizen. 
He projected and planned the splendid Moresque iron building, at 



the coiner of Camp and Poydras streets, which is such an ornament 
to tlie city. It was completed by his sons. The designs were by a 
New Orleans architect, and the elaborate and highly ornamental iron 
work cast in a foundry at Holly Springs, Miss., before the war. 

But two or three of those who originated the Bociety, or who ap- 
proved its legal papers, as above recorded, are living. Hon. Mr. Guy- 
•cinO, the distinguished historian, still enjoys excellent health, and 
wields as of old a ijolished and vigorous pen. 

The charter was renewed in January, IST.;, for a term of seventy- 
nine years, — or for ninety nine years froin 1852 ; the renewal act being 
signed before Antlr^ I). l)oriocourt, notary, by Messrs. Giacomo Massa, 
Vice President ; E. Trois, Secretary ; Dr. F. Formento, Angelo Socola, 
G. Sciaccaluga, A. V. Abbo, Gustavo Marzi, G. Delia Valle, Guiseppe 
Vellini, L. Olivari, L. Montedinico, H. R. Piccaluga, GuLseppe Vai-iani 
and A. Penco. 

The a<'t was approved by District Attorney C. H. Luzenberg, Jan- 
uary 18th, 1872, and recorded the same day in the ofllce of the Recorder 
of Mortgages. The original constitution and by-laws were retained, 
with slight changes ; one of them, in reference to the President, re- 
i|uiring only that he shall be an Italian by birth, and omitting the 
" American citizenshii) " qualification. 

The Society's Officers are now as set forth on page 89. Thej' are 
well known residents of New Orleans. Thirty of the members of the 
Societ.y appeared in carriages, in the Third Division, on the day of the 
Garfield Procession. — The Finance Conmiittee is as follows : Messrs. G. 
Mazzei, G. Bosio, L. Olivari, A. Botto and G. Grande. The Collector 
is G. Delia Valle; the Physician, Dr. F. Formento. There are over 
one hundred active members now on the rolls ; and a few of them have 
been with the society ever since its preliminary organization in 1850- 
51, as, Mr. Aug. Lanata, the well known merchant, and Mr. N. M. 
Benaehi, the estimable Greek Consul. The Society owns a Tomb, and 
is financially in a prospei'ous condition. 



YOUNG MEN'S BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION. 

This popular Association was organized June 26th, 1858, and is con- 
se([uently in its twenty-fourth year of usefulness and prosperity. It is 
an incorporated institution, with lis domicile in New Orleans, and place 
of meeting at Grunewald Hall. 

Its objects are nmtual benevolence, which it carries out by assist- 
ing members in getting employment; relieving their necessities when 
sick ; sup|)lying them with a doctor, and when necessary, a nurse, and 
visiting them daily. The Association owns a tomb in the New St. Louis 
('emetery, in which the deceased members are interred. A sum is also 
allowed for funeral expenses in the case of the death of a member's 
wife. When a member dies the sum of lj;400 is paid to his family, if 
married, and to his nearest relative, if he is not married. 

The membership is divived into three classes ; Life, Honorary and 
Active. The Life Roll comprises those who have served for sixteen 
years ; and, while entitled to all the benefits of an active member, they 
pay no dues or assessments, and are not recjuired to perform any duty. 
Honorary Members are those who- have served eight years; and, like 
the life members, they perform no duties ; are entitled to all the privi- 
leges, but pay ten dollars a year. Active Members pay monthly and 



APPENDIX. 205 



funeral dues, and are liable to fines for failure to attend meetings, 
funerals and other duties. 

The A.ssociation em braces in its membership, nearly every nation- 
ality, creed, i)rolession and trade. It is stronj^, and yearly growing 
stronger in numbers and resources, and is universally esteemed for 
the good it has accomplished, and charities dispensed since the day of 
its organization. 

At a special meeting of the Association held on the l*4th of Sep- 
tember, 1881, the following preamble and resolutions were unanimously 
adopted : 

" Whereas, We have received with sincere regret the sad intelli- 
gence of the untimely death of James Abram Garfield, late President 
of the United States. And, whereas, his large hearted jiatriotism, dis- 
tinguished services and unflinching devotion to his country, have 
challenged our admiration, while his sublime ijatience and heroic 
courage, during the fearful aflliction and suffering which preceded his 
death, have enlisted our warmest sympathies. And, whereas, the death 
of one in so exalted a position, and under such circumstances, is no 
ordinary aflliction; therefore, be it 

''■Resolved, By the Young Men's Benevolent As.sociation of the State 
of Louisiana, that we regard it as our highest duty to assemble with 
our fellow citizens of the Union and adil this, our offering to the 
mighty tribute of honor and respect to his memory that is placed upon 
his bier by the hands and hearts of his sorrowing countrymen. 

'■' lieHolved, That we regard with pride the ciiaracter and manhood 
of James A. Gtirfield, and the example which his career aftbrds of a 
triumph of a noble life over all the adversities and difficulties which 
poverty and humble birth can present: an example worthy of emula- 
tion, which will ever be treasured by the admiring youths of this 
great nation. 

" Resolved, That we will ever hold in grateful remembrance the 
distinguished statesmanship of our deceased President, which, since his 
elevation to that exalted office, has done so much towards cementing 
the bond of the union of these States; and that we cherish the hope 
that the ' more perfect union ' which was the dream of our forefathers 
will be the result of his patriotic labors, and the coming glory of the 
administration which he began. 

" Resolved, That we bow in submission to the will of the Ruler of 
the universe, with faith in His greatness and mercy, which can guide 
the nation, assuage the grief of the people, and comfort and sustain the 
aged mother and stricken widow and children of the departed Presi- 
dent, son, husband and father. 

''Resolved, That to those who were nearest and dearest to him, who 
knew him best and loved him most, whose grief is such as none others 
can know, we extend our sympathy, a sympathy that comes from the 
heart, and whose depth and sincerity words cannot express. 

" Resolved, Thata coj^y of these resolutions, proj^erly authenticated, 
be forwarded to the mother, widow and orphans of the late President." 

Louis A. Richards, Chairman; A. Prados, Jr., G. R. Nelson, L. 
Schneider, S. Sutter, A. N. Laine, J. N. \V. Otto, J. F. JSJintken, W. 
E. Schuppert, M. D., Henry Bezou, M. D. 

Attest: JOHN W. BRYANT, President. 

N. P. Henley, Rec. Sec 

On pages 96-97 will be found the list of Officers and the sketch of 
the Association, heading the Fifth Division, under Marshal Tissot. 



THE BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION OF THE SONS OF 
LOUISIANA. 

Tlii.s is one of the oldest and most prosperous benevolent associa- 
tions of t)nr city. On the (ith of October, 1856, a few of our citizens 
who felt the necessity of joining together for mutual assistance, in case 
of sickness and other calamities, organized the Society ; and shortly 
afterwards, in 1857, it was regularly incorporated, under the laws 
of the State, with a legal existence to expire on the 6th of October, 1881. 
On that day the charter was renewed for twenty-live years more. 

The first President of the Association was Mr. Charles R. Fagot. 
Tlie list of the Officers last September, and the ajjpearance the Asso- 
ciation made in the Funeral Procession, will be found on page 97. 

The Association has passed through many vicissitudes, notably 
during the war, when so many of its members took an active part in 
that struggle that from a membership of 700, which it counted in the 
height of its prosperity, between the years 1856 and 1860 it dwindled 
down to seventy, and even tlien barely existed. 

The termination of the war left the Association in a very demoral- 
ized condition, and it was not thoroughly re-organized until the year 
1868. In 1875 it counted not more than forty or lifty menibers on its 
roll, with not more than the same number of dollars in the treasury. 
But in that year, it took a new lease of life by acquiring a largely in- 
creased roll of membership, and by placing Mr. James Camijbell in the 
President's chair, which he has tilled ever since, with the exception 
of tlie year 1876, when Mr. Armand Q,uere was elected to the office, 
vacating it in the following year. 

Since its reorganization, the Association has wonderfully increased 
in vitality and prosperity, so that to-day its membership, which in 1880 
was 375, is 56:^^, and its funds amount to over $14,000, with a fair prospect 
of increasing monthly. Its object is, "' To assist and give aid to each 
'■ and all its members, according to its power and ability, in every 
" instance of sickness, and to bury its members whenever it pleases 
" the Almighty to remove them from their fellow men." 



YOUNG MEN'S GYMNASTIC CLUB, 

This athletic Association numbers 315 on its roll of membership, 
and has one of the largest and best equipped gymnasiums in this 
country. 

It was organized September 'Id, 1872, by the following named citi- 
zens : F. J. Aleix, J. C. Aleix, Chas. Burkhardt, Chris. Burkhardt, 
Jac. Burkhardt, C. G. Collins, Hy. A. Harine, L. L. Knapp, Fred 
Kuntz, L. A. Nicana, Adolph Rehage, J. A. Rehage, J. Roca, and C. 
Weinberger. 

The Club i.^ in a very nourishing condition, and under the able 
management of the following Board of Directors : 

Hy. Grandmont, Geo. Rousset, L. Infante, John Bassicli, Jr., 
Geo. W. Dinkel, VV. R. L. McNeil, Geo. Staigg, R. Musso, and L. F. 
Sivori. 

On page 97 is given a list of the names of the Officers and the 
display made by the Club in the Procession in honor of President 
Garlield. 



APPENDIX. 207 



SOUTHEKN MUTUAL BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION. 

This is a new Association, liavinj? been orj^^anized in the Tliird 
District of this city, at the Stonewall Jackson Hall, on the 4th day of 
April. ISSl, and iiicoriKn-atcd on (he M day of the rollowinjj: .Inne." It 
is in excellent condition in every respect, and the citizens of the " Old 
Third " are jnstly prond of it. 

The objects and purposes of the Association are " to assist and give 
aid to each and all its members according to its power and ability, in 
every instance of sickness ; to bury the members of the same when- 
ever it pleases the Almighty to remove them from their fellow men." 

There are 115 names on the roll of membersliip. 

On " Memorial Monday " the Association with its Officers was the 
fourth in line in the Fifth Division, as set forth in detail on page 98. 



PELICAN MUTUAL BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION. 

This is one of the strongest and most effective of our benevolent 
organizations. It is also a representative organization of the best 
elements of our old Creole population. Among the fifty-two gentle- 
men who organized the Society on the ;24th of N<)veml)er, isfiH, were to 
be found some of the most prominent and ])ublic spirited citizens of 
tlie day. Hon. A. L. Tissot, one of the foundei's and the first Presi- 
dent, still retains his position, and, in the language of one of the mem- 
bers, he is likely to retain it as long as he lives. 

The Association was legally incorporated on the 31st of October, 
1807. It boasts of a membership of 460, and is in a very flourishing 
condition financially. 

Its objects are, " to give one another mutual aid and assistance in 
case of sickness or other misfortune; to bury those deceased, and 
create among its members ties of friendship and fraternity." 

The Association was fifth in the Fifth Division in the Funeral 
Procession. A sketch of it there, with its Otficers, will be found on 
page 98. 



CLAIBORNE SOCIAL CLUB. 

This well-managed Club has made itself one of the most popular 
in the social circles of our city, by giving picnics, balls and anniver- 
sary dinners. Indeed, its entertainments are recognized as among the 
most agreeable given by any of our Associations— and that is saying a 
great deal. This meed of praise is justly due the " Claibornes." 

The Club was organized April liith, 1877, at No. IIU North Claiborne 
street, by the following named citizens: T.J. Ford, H. C. Fincke, 
Jeri-y Place, E. Jungel, Jno. Weinnig, V. Mauberret, P. Mauberret, G. 
Mauberret, F. Mauberret, Chas. Hefer, Otto Hefer, L. Cronan, Jno. 
Cleary, Chas. Bader, G. Bader, VVm. H. Buckley .W. H. Murphy, Jas. 
Breunan, H. W- Carbon, V- B. Gonzales, J. Muldoon, Dennis Dutty, 
W. Barry, Dan Costello, W. C. Meeks and Eug. Mauberret. 

The Officers elected on that occsaion were: Thos. J. Ford, Presi- 
dent; H. C. Fincke, Vice President; V. B. Gonzales, Secretary, and 
Jerry Place, Treasurer.— The Club was named in honor of the illustri- 
ous man who was the first territorial Governor of Louisiana. 

During the epidemic of 1S7S, the Club exhausted its finances by 



208 APPENDIX. 



donating one-half of the amount in its treasury to the Howard 
Association, and spendini? tlie balance in relieving the sufferings of 
tlie poor people in its neighborhood, who were afflicted with the 
dreadful scourge. 

The Club, however, speedily rallied from the depleting effect of 
these kind acts; and to-day it numbers 162 members, and is on an 
excellent financial standing. 

The Board of Control consists of Messrs L. 6. Cronan, Jas. Lyons, 
(Jus. Bader, Jno. Weinnig and Jno. Muldoon. 

How the Club turned out to do honor to President Garfield's mem- 
ory, is set Ibrth on pages 98 and 99. 



YOUNG MEN'S EXCELSIOR BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION. 

This Society had a modest and almost accidental origin. It has 
undoubtedly had a very checkered career. On the evening of February 
5th, 1876, eight young men met by chance at the corner of Chartres and 
Hospital streets, in the lower part of the city, and a proposition being 
made by one of them to form a Social Club, and agreed to, the " Hard 
Times Social Club " was then and there organized. This was the germ 
of the present excellent organization. These eight young men were: 
Eugene Mestier, George J. Viosca, A. Duvic, Joseph Sbisa, L. Zimmer- 
man, George Hahl, J. Berigan and James Doran. On February 6th, 
1876, a meeting was held at the residence of George J. Viosca, at which 
the following gentlemen were elected the first officers of the Club: 
Eugene Mestier, President; George J. Viosca, Vice President; Joseph 
Sbisa, Secretary : A. Duvic, Treasurer; George Hahl, Warden. 

Their first entertainment, a soiriSe dansante, was given at Keppler's 
Hall, on Decatur street, on the evening of February 12th, 1876. On 
April 10th, 1876, the Constitution and By-Laws prepared under the 
sui^ervision of a committee, composed of George J. Viosca, chairman, 
George Hahl and J. Berigan, were adopted. 

In the following month it was unanimously agreed to change the 
name of the Club to that of the " Young Men's Excelsior Social Club," 
and to hold its meetings at the hall, corner Chartres and Barracks 
streets. At the election for officers in December, 1876, Eugene Mestier 
was I'e-eleeted President, which office he has held ever since, through 
all the changes and vicissitudes of the Club. 

The Club having become somewhat enlarged and prosperous, it 
was proposed that it be changed into a benevolent association; and 
on the 24th of July, 1877, at a meeting held at the residence of the 
President, the name of the Club was again changed to the one it bears 
at present, and its objects and purposes devoted to the benefit as well as 
the ])leasure of its members. 

The first officers of the new organization, elected in the following 
December, were the same gentlemen who hold tiieir present positions, 
with the exception of the Financial Secretary, Treasurer, Collector and 
Marshal, which ofiices were held by Hippolyte E. Capdau, Hermann 
Manier, William Guerin and Gaetano Lafanci, respectively. ' On the 
27th of the same month, the organization was legally incorporated. 
Since then, the Association has prospered both numerically and finan- 
cially. Its roll of luenibersliip, which in 1878, amounted to sixty-five, 
is now two iiundred and forty-seven, and its funds, which at tlie time 
of its organization in 1877, amounted to about seventy-five dollars, have 
increased to over fourteen hundred dollars. 



APPENDIX. liOl) 



On page !)9 will be found the Ofticers' names in 8epteinl>er last, 
and u description of these sterling j'oung men's luirtule in the proces- 
sion . 



]*IKE BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION. 

This Society, a sl^etch of whose appearance in the Procession is 
given on page 9!), was founded April 8(i, ].S7(!, with seventeen charter 
members. It was named in honor of our late philanthropic and public- 
s])irited fellow-citizen, Wm. S. I'ike. The lirsc olticers of the Associa- 
tion were V. H. Robinson, l*resident; C Henri(^hs, Vice President; 
Jno. Leslie, Recording Secretary; Jno. Unverzagt, Financial Secre- 
tary; A. Smith, Treasurer. 

Mr. Robinson lias occuj^ied tlie President's chair since the organic 
zation of tlie Association. He is respected and admired by a wide circle 
of friends. 

The object of the Association is : " To assist and give aid to those 
" connected with it wlienever tiiey stand in need of assistance ; to bury 
" those deceased, whenever Providence, in His inysterious dispensa- 
" tion, shall remove a fellow-member from its midst; to sympathize 
" with tbeir relatives; and also to protect their destitute widows and 
" or]:)hans, so far as lies in its power." 

The Society is in a very flourishing condition, numbering 130 
active niembers. Geo. A. Pike, Esq. and Dr. Jno. H. Pike are two of 
its Honorary Members. 

During the terrible epidemic of 1878, the Association, under the 
worthy President's i^ersonal sujjervision, did noble work in nursing 
the sick and succoring those in distress. 



GERMAN LOUISIANA DRAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 

This old and staunch Society was organized and incor2)orated in 
185-i, with a membership roll of 242. It is a strictly benevolent Asso- 
ciation. Its tirst otficers were : Adam Frank, President; Geo. Vogel, 
Vice President; Geo. Si.euernagel, Secretary, and Henry Ahrens, Treas- 
urer. Its present officers are named on page 100, with a notice of the 
display of the Association on Memorial Monday. The Association 
numbers at jiresent 230 members, all hard working and respected mem- 
bers of the community. 

LAFAYETTE YOUNG MEN'S BENEVOLP^NT ASSOCIATION. 

This sterling Society, a comparatively new one, was oi-ganized 
March 12th, 1877. Its first officers were: T. J. O'Sullivan, President; 
J. B. Steiner, Vice President; F. Bruseau, Secretary; F. Von der 
Harr, Treasurer; J. Welsch, Sergeant-at-arms ; and A. Graf, .Ir., 
Marshal. 

There are over two hundred active members now in the Associa- 
tion, all young men, none of them being over tliirtj'-five years of age. 
Their object is "to assist sigk and distressed members ;" and, from the 
names and standing of the Officers, whose names appear on page 100, 
it may be relied on that this charitable mission is never neglected. 

These young men are, for the most part, representatives of that 
favored part of the city known as the "Garden District." Their dis- 
play in the procession did it and them great credit. 

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8'r. GEORGE'S YOUNG MEN'S BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION. 



This popular Association is under the supervision of the Redenip- 
(orist Fathers ol" St. JNIary's Assuniptioii (Jhurcli, in the Fourth Dis- 
trict, wa,s organized on the Hist of July, ISTO, and, though limited in 
nunihers, it is strong financially. Its hall is very handsomely and 
comfortably furnislied, and there may be found there a select and val- 
ualtlc library, of fifteen hundred works, in both the English and Ger- 
man languages. There is also a well arranged reading room. 

On page KM) will be found the names of the ofticers, and the manner 
in which they and their fellow members paraded on September 2(3th, 
last. 

liesides the monthly dues and assessments paid by the members, 
niusical, literary and dramatic entertainments are given, from time to 
time, to increase the finances. Some of these entertainments are for 
the benefit of schools, churches and asylums. 

A tomb fund has been inaugurated, which will soon amount to a 
sum that will enable the Association to build a large and handsome 
mausoleum in St. Joseph's Cemetery, on Washington street. 

The objects of the Association are : " Friendshii), benevolence and 
charity." These are manifested by assisting and giving :ud to the mem- 
bers, esiiecially in every instance of sickness, and to bury them when 
they die. At present, there are sixty members on the rojl. The mem- 
bersiiip has been at all times sufficiently numei'ous to ensure continued 
l)rosperity to the Association. 



SHIP CARPENTERS' AND JOINERS' BENEVOLENT 
ASSOCIATION. 

This — an Algiers Society, whose officers and [>arade are given on 
l)age 10-1: — is the youngest of our labor organizations, but is a pretty 
vigorous one at that. It was organized on the '27th of July, 1881. 
There are over sixty names on the roll of membership, and the finan- 
ces are in good condition. Considering the many years that our 
neighbor on the other bank of the river has had so many dock and 
ship yards, it is somewhat surprising that such a useful organization 
as this did not long since exist there. This one has the right mate- 
rial, and will not fail to be all its name indicates. 



ANCIENT ORDER OF HIBERNIANS. 

This is said to be the most powerful Irish organization in exist- 
ence. It lias Lodges in every State and Territory of the United States, 
and also in Canada and New Brunswick. There are now 1821 Lodges, 
with a membership which, up to Sejitember 1st, 1881, aggregated 
23,319 men. 

TJie Order is governed by three Officers and five Directors, who 
are rcs])ectively known as National Delegate, Secretary, Treasurer, 
an<l National Directory. The National Delegate is the only member 
of the Order in America who is a membai- of the Home Board. New 
Ori'ans is at jjresent honored with the highest office in the American 
l)ranch of the Order, in the person of Mr. Peter Kiernan, who is 
serving his third term as National Delegate, and who was the first 
Secretary of the Order for this State, retaining the position for five 
years, and resigning only to accept higher office. 



APPENDIX. 211 



The National Officers are oleotod every year by the National Cori- 
veution, whicli is coinposed of ^.'atioiuil, State niid CoLiiity Ollicers. 
The last Conveiitiou was held in St. Louis; tlie next will beheld in 
Chicago, next May.— State Delegates receive their instiuctioiis IVoiii 
the National Delegate and Secretary. 

Tiie Order has several military coiniianies attached ; one full regi- 
ment in New York eity ; one in Ohieago, and one battalion, each, in 
Jersey City, San Francisco. St. Louis and (Jijicinnuti, all duly com- 
missioned and controlled by the National Delegate. 

The Organization observed the funeral (lerenionies of our late 
lamented President throughout tlie country, by orders Iroiu the Na- 
tional Delegate; and in Ciiicago, the Hitiernian Ivegiment, KiUO 
strong, in full regalia, formed a c()mi)lete division of tlie Procession. 

The i)arent stem of the organization is located in Dublin, Ireland. 
The Order was first establisheil in America in the eity of New York 
in 1847; chartered for the State of New York in 18-32; and for the 
United States in 1 881, by the present National Delegate, from whom 
all Lodges must obtain a charter. 

The Order was established in Louisiana in L^74. Mr. Wni. J. Kelly 
was the first State Delegate, which position he retained for threes-ears. 

CONDOLENCi;. 

The following communication from Hon. P. Kiernan, National 
Delegate of the Order, was forwarded to all State Delegates in the 
United States : 

" It is with profound and sincere regret that the death of President 
James A. Garfield is announced to a sorrowing people. 

" The Ancient Order of Hibernians will, on the day set aside for 
his interment, observe it with proper ceremonies of respect to the mem- 
ory of the illustrious deceased. 

" State delegates will see that the A. O. H., in their respective 
States, properly carry out the formalities prescribed for that day. 

" In behalf of the Ancient Order of Hibernians of America, we 
hereby tender to Mrs. Garfield and her children, in this their hour of 
bereavement, our sincere sympathy and respect ; for in his death she 
has lost a noble-hearted, true and faithful husband : the nation a wise, 
just and patriotic President. 

" M. J. COSGROVE, " I'ETER KlERNAN, 

" National Sec'y. "National Delegate." 

The handsome manner in which the Order here observed these in- 
structions, is described on page 104. 



NEW LUSITANOS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION. 

This well-known Society, whose many deeds of charity are deeply 
impressed on the records of our city's history, was organized on the 
11th of September, 1858. Its first officers were: A. Vierra, President; 
A. Pons y Valencia, First Vice President; Jose Barba, Jr., Second 
Vice President ; Anthony Sambola, Secretary ; F. J. DaCosta. Treas- 
urer; and E. Rufft and S. Boehm, Collectors. 

The Association is very liberal in its reception of members, and in 
its scope of benevolent action. It is strong financially ; and it nund)ers 
at the present time over 300 members. They meet in their own 
spacious Hall, lately purchased, at the corner of Dauphine and Elysian 



212 APPENDIX. 



Fields streets. The style iu which the Association ])artieipated in 
the Funeral I'rocession, shows their public spii'it. The sketch, and the 
list of tiieir Olticers on that day, are on pages 105 and 100 



COTTON YARDMEN'S BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION. 

This representative labor association, though a very young one as 
to years, is one of the strongest in our city. It was founded in 1879, a 
teinporary organization being efi'ected on December (Itli of that year. 
The following officers were elected to serve temporarily : P. Mealey, 
President; M- J. Cusack, Secretary; and John Wyse, Treasurer, with 
eighty members on the roll. 

The Association was Derntanently organized on the 27th of the 
same month, when lion. P. ^lealey, our worthy Administrator of 
Police, was again honored with the Presidency, which he has held 
ever since. i he following additional officers were elected: Dan. 
Mahoney, Vice President ; James Roche, Recording Secretary ; James 
McCarthy, Financial Secretary; Jno. H. Behan, Treasurer; and M. J. 
Cusack, Ed. Harrison, and Jno. Goertz composing the Finance Com- 
mittee. 

The membership had already increased to the number of 220, and 
the organization was felt to be on the high road to prosperity. It was 
incorporated according to the laws of the State, on the 24th of January, 
18.S0, with the following charter members: VVm. Barrett, J. Henry 
Behan, Michael J. Cusack, John Goertz, Edward Harrison, Dan. 
Mahoney, Patrick Mealey, Patrick Nolan, Martin Reardon, James 
Roche and John Wyse. 

During the year 1&80, the Association increased rapidly, and 
accumulated considerable funds. By the close of the year, 878 mem- 
bers were on the rolls, and the sum of .$7000 was in the treasury. 
Since then, there has been a still greater increase, so that the Asso- 
ciation now numbers 980 members, with the handsome sum of iS)13,000 
in its funds. 

On page 102 will be found the list of the Officers of the Association, 
when it took its place in the Procession of September last, to honor the 
memory of the dead President. The sj^lendid turnout of the Associ- 
ation greatly impressed the spectators. 



THE FRENCH DEMOCRATIC CLUB. 

This Club was organized on the 2otli October, 1877, by a number of 
our French residents, who were desirous of estal)lishing a nucleus 
around which would rally all of their co-nationalists in this country 
who were devoted to the progress of liberal ideas, as embodied in the 
]irincii)les of the " Frencli Republicans," and as opposed to what are 
known in France as the Legitimists, Orleanists, Imperialists, etc. 
The founders of the Club were Messrs. IST. Bouvier, Eugene Desdunes, 
J. B. Juncjua, C. E. Champon, Emile Scheidecher, Jules Noblom, Chas. 
Adouc,E J. Duj)ar(iuier, P. Bossoney, E. Simon, F. Clos, A. Lafleur, 
P. Mai<'.liand and L. Antolmy. 

Being the only political organization of French citizens in Louisi- 
ana, the (Jlub made it its lirst duty to celebrate the anniversary of the 
French Revolution ; and, a few months after its organization, the 
members gave a ban(|Uet in honor of the 24th February, 1848. 



APPENDIX. 21.} 



Tlie •lime year— 187H— the C'hil), oil tlie 14tli July, celehratcd as it 
inerited tliat ever fainoiis event, tlie "caiiture of tlie llastille," wliicli 
ofHeers and iiienil)ers justly considered tlie hirth-niark of tree and i)op- 
ular governiiieiit in France. The French (Jovernnient, two years later, 
gave the seal to this great event by selecting the 1 itli July as the olVicial 
anniversarv of the French Uepublic. 

In 1S81, the Club initiated the brilliant fete of the 14th July, 
which, under the auspices of the French Consul, united all our l^'reiich 
citizens in their national celebration; and will l)e reineiidjered as one 
of the most successful and elegant public displays ever helil in this city. 

The Club naturally took a vivid interest in (he ]Miblic proceedings 
designed to testify to the general sorrow for the untimely death of tlie 
chief officer of the American liepublic In this, they and .their warm 
hearted compatriots have zealously followed the example given by the 
French Government. 

The names of the officers of the " Club de la D(?mocratic Franvnise 
de la Nouvelle Orleans " appear on page 106. 



SPANISH UNION MUTUAL BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION. 

On the 3d of May, 1829, at the suggestion of Colonel G. K. Sancti 
Petri, a prominent Spanish resident of New Orleans, his compatriots 
here organized a military company entitled the " Cazadores de Or- 
k'ans " whose first Captain was Simon Cucullu. Representing the 
C'lite of our numerous and respected Spanish colony, the Cazadores 
entered the militia and soon took rank among the best disciplined and 
most iufiuential of the many fine commands, of different nationalities, 
that then represented the cosmopolitan population of New Orleans. 

The objects of the Company were not for military ends only, but to 
strengthen the ties of nationality, and further the general interests of 
the Spanish residents. 

One of the results of its long and active existence was the erection, 
in the "St. Louis Cemetery, No. 2," of a magnificent tomb, which 
cost $15,000. The mausoleum was dedicated on the 11th of July, 1886 ; 
and on the same day the Company's seventh anniversary was com- 
memorated ; and in the Cathedral a beautiful fiag was consecrated that 
had been made by the ladies and j^resented by Second Lieutenant Lino 
de la Rosa. The" ceremonies were brilliant and impressive. Among 
the invited guests appear the well remembered names of Governor Ed- 
ward White, ex- Governor Roman, Senator Cannon, Mayor Prieur, 
Attorney General Mazureau, Recorder Baldwin, Samuel J. Peters, 
Caldwell, Pichot, Milbron, and of others prominent in the history of 
the State and city. A splendid banquet joyously terminated the day. 

The Cazadores continued to prosper until the memorable summer 
of 1851, which witnessed the landing of the Lopez expedition in Cuba ; 
their capture, and the death of the leader and of many of his followers, 
among whom were a number of citizens of the United States, includ- 
ing many young men from New Orleans. The violent and deplora- 
ble scenes in this city that ensued, and in which the unotfending 
Spanish residents were the sufferers, are well remembered by old 
citizens. 

As one consequence, the Cazadores disbanded, but only as a mili- 
tary organization. On the 25th of September, 1851, they organized the 
" Sociedad Espaiiolade Beneficencia Mutua," whose principles of char- 
ity and good works were energetically and generously carried into 



214 APPENDIX. 



c'fleet until the 19th of January, LSGf, when it combined with the 
" SociecUid Ihera de Beneficenoia Mutua." 

The " Soeiihid I bera " was formed November 19th, 1882; and fol- 
lowim;- tlie example of the older organization, was first organized as 
a military coinpany, entitled the " Cazadores Volantes del Estado," 
whost' first commander. Captain Juan Penas, gave the Volantes a repu- 
tation for excellent drill and martial bearing that they retained ever 
after. 

At the epoch these two Corai^anies were formed. New Orleans was 
a port of refuge for many Spanish emigrants from Mexico, most of 
them driven from that country by the revolution against Spain. The 
majority of these refugees were men of culture and refinement, and 
were an acceptable addition to the Spanish colony here. Whilst the 
greater number of them left, after awhile, for Cuba or Spain, those who 
remained took an active part in the organization of the two Cazadores 
commands, and contributed greatly to their success. 

The " Cazadores Volantes," soon after their formation, erected a 
splendid marble tomb, of the same design and dimensions as that of the 
older com}«iny, but the cost was $30,000. 

In 18-46, the outbreak of the war with Mexico totally changed the 
character of the "Volantes." Some of the members wished to have 
the Com])any enlisted in the American armies under Taylor and 
Scott ; other members opposed. The result was a dissolution of the 
Comj^any as a military connnand. It was promiitly reorganized, ho\v- 
ever, on the 2d of June, 1S4G, as the " Sociedad Ibera," for strictly 
nuitual benevolent purposes, and was active in that career until 1861. 
Then, from their identity of purjioses and nationality, the two Socie- 
ties determined to unite. This was efiected in a joint meeting, held 
January 19th, 1861; and the result was the formation of the present 
" Sociedad Union Espanola de Beneficencia Mutua." 

This Association has gone through, in its twenty years of existence, 
the severest trials inflicted on a community by war, epidemics, mis- 
rule, commercial and agricultural disaster ; but it has never faltered 
in its work of benevolence. Under the able administration of Presi- 
dent Thomas Jorda, the well known and esteemed merchant, it has 
attained to a llattering degree of prosperity. Its finances are in excellent 
condition, and the rolls show the names of over three hundred mem- 
bers. On the 26th of September, the Society, as will be seen by the 
brief sketch on page 107, exerted itself to testify the genuine regret 
President Garfield's death occasioned among our numerous Spanish 
residents. 



LUSITANIAN PORTUGUESE BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION. 

A meeting of Portuguese citizens was held in the Hall of the Repre- 
sentatives of the State of Louisiana, on Canal street, on the 28th of 
August, 1848, to form a benevolent organization, and the following gen- 
tlemen were unanimously elected to serve ad interim : Louis Vieira, 
President; Francisco R. Borges, First Vice President; Ant. Vieira, 
Jr., Recording Secretary; Francisco Luiz, Financial Secretary; and 
Alexander Pereira, 'I'reasurer, Another meeting was held on Septem- 
ber 4fli, 1k48, wlien fifty-eight members subscribed their names to the 
roll. 

On the nth of the same month, a general meeting was held, at 
whicli there were ninety-seven members present. Ferdinand E. de 



Kreitas, was unanimously electod Second Viw IM-osideut, and Dr. 
Anuand Merrier, Pliysieiun. On (lie istli of tlie month, (he onicers 
took their oaths of olKee, and the foliowinsi; were elected a lioard ot 
Administrators: Francisco Vieira, Jose Xunes, Ant. Pereira, Joa(|uim 
Pinto, Francisco Tavares, Jose de Freitas, .loas Pereira, Francisco 
TjuIz and Fernand J. Silva. 

The Association was le^^ally incorporated on (lie Kith of April, 1S.")1. 

The following is a list of Presidents who have i)ri'si(U"d over the 
Association since its organization, and their terms of oflice : First, 
Louis Vieira served three years ; F. R. Horges served two years ; Fran- 
cisco Roque, one year; Ant. Vieira, three years; John ' Davis, tliree 
years ; Francisco Luiz, seven years ; Ant. Pereira, three years ; .lose T. 
Arantes, four years; Jose Bai'anque, .seven years. The latter gentle- 
man is the father of the present Recording Secretary of the Association, 
and was succeeded in office hy Mr. John MercadaJ, who is now Presi- 
dent. 

The Association has heen for years, and is still, in a nourishing 
condition,— owning two tine tombs in the St. Louis Cemetery, and its 
spacious hall, at No. 2<);^ Bayou Road. There are two hundred and forty- 
tive active members on the roll. Formerly, none but Portuguese we're 
admitted to membership ; but that rule has of late years been changed ; 
and now we find all nationalities represented among the members, the 
majority, of course, belonging to the Latin races. 

The Association is very liberal in its relief measures to its mem- 
bers; taking care of them when sick, furnishing medicines, a physi- 
cian, and cash ; burying the dead ; aiding a member's family when they 
are sick ; and in case of his death, assisting them afterwards. The 
Society has expended not less than $50,000 in this noble way. One of the 
Association's special observances is, on every recurrence of "All Saint's 
Day," to take up a collection at the cemeteries for the little children in 
St. Mary's Catholic Orphan Bo3's' Asylum. 

The Association, iu the Funeral Procession, m'as fourth in line in 
the Seventh Division, as described on page 10(i. 



FRENCH MUTUAL BENEVOLP^NT ASSOC^IATION. 

In 1839, thirty-six years after the great Napoleon ceded Louisiana 
to the United States, a few French residents, gathered at No. 202 Bour- 
bon street, founded the first "French Society" in New Orleans. 
Among them were Messrs. F. Buisson, F. Praslon, Conseil, Jean 
Schweitzer and Dr. Duperron. 

A ditFerence as to the scope and constitution of the organization 
resulted in the withdrawal of some of the members, who elected the 
French Consul, M. Roger, as their President. The others organized the 
" Societe de la Nouvelle Orl(5aus," with F. Buis.son for President, and 
H. Escousse for Secretary. It dragged along until 1S4.H, wlien dissolu- 
tion thi'eateuing, twenty-seven of its members determined to maintain 
its existence and shouldered its debts. That brilliant orator, lawyer, 
and politician, Pierre Soul6,— an exile from France— now ol)tained a 
legislative charter that gave the Society a good working basis. Mr. 
Soul6 was elected the President, and held the office until he was 
elected U. S- Senator. His succes.sor was the good old Abb^ Lesne. 

In 1848 the Society was strengthened by the voluntary junction of 
that presided over by Consul Roger. In 18ol a new constitution was 



21G APPENDIX. 



adojjted, and in 1852, Mr. Olivier Blineau became President. He held 
the oltice for eleven years; and, under his able management, the 
Society steadily increased in members, resources and benevolent 
usefulness. He ensured the thorough administration of the Asylum 
for the sick, and developed the system of giving medical aid to mem- 
bers and their families at their homes. This feature contributed 
essentially to the growth of the Society. Mr. Blineau was besides a 
liberal benefactor to the Society out of his own means. He was hon- 
ored formally with the title of " Father of the French Society ;" had a 
ball in the Asylum named after him, and a marble tablet erected to 
him ; and on each anniversary of his death (which took place in Au- 
gust, 1SH3), the French flag hangs at half-mast over the spacious 
As.ylum on St. Anne street, the grounds of which were his present. 

Mr. Blineau was succeeded l)y the esteemed and venerable Joseph 
(7irt)d, who presided most etlficiently from 1863 to 187.5, when old age 
induced bis resignation. He was made "Honorary President for 
Life," and died in January, 1878. 

Mr. Jean Schweitzer, one of the founders of the Society in 1880, 
now became President, and served zealously until 1880, when Mr. J. 
LeBlanc, who had been Vice President, and was for twenty-five years 
a member of the " Administrative Council," was elected. He is still 
in office and likely to reujain. 

One of the latest Vice Presidents was our esteemed confrere, Mr. 
Felix Limet, who after many years of a singularly industrious, intel- 
ligent and hont)rable career as one of the editors of that excellent old 
French dailj', the New Orleans Bee, returned to his native land in 
1881, there to spend the remainder of his days. 

The Society has had, since 1843, nine Treasurers, the present worthj' 
incumbent, Mr. A. Castel, being in office since 1877. — Also fourteen 
Secretaries, the most efficient of whom is undoubtedly Mr. L. Simon. 
He has performed the duties since 1874 in a manner to receive the 
official thanks of the Society. — The present zealous Collector, Mr. P. 
Mengelle, in 1878 succeeded Mr. Chabert who resigned after holding 
the office from 1853. 

The Society has been very fortunate from 1845 to date, in its Physi- 
ans: Mercier, Brunei, Fagot, isnard, Souterre, Dubourg, Natali, Boulin, 
Beugnot, Ranc6, Allain, D'Aquin, Lafon, Marmillon, Maringer, 
Touatre, Anfoux, Delagrave, Escoubas, Berjot, DeRoaldfes, Devron, and 
Souchon— all names of men eminent for capacity, and for devotion to 
their i^rofession. 

Dr. Touatre has had personal charge of the Asylum since 1866. He 
has twice been honored by the French Government with distinguished 
te.stimonials of recognition of his services to their countrymen in 
distress. The same Government, after the epidemic of 1867, similarly 
honored President Joseph Girod, Dr. Maringer,JDr. Berjot and Mr. 
A. Dudoussat. 

The first Asylum was opened in 1844 in the Milne mansion, on 
the old Bayou Road. The present fine edifice, on St. Anne street, 
was constructed in ]860-()l, and opened in the latter year. 

The yellow fever epidemics that have visited ourlJcity since 1847, 
liave severely tested the strength, the resources and the benevolent 
])urposes of the Society ; but it has never failed to meet all demands 
upon it. The total number of sick taken care of by it from^ 1845 to 
1879, was 21 ,304 ; the total amount of i)ecuniary relief donated,' in the 




snine period, was $29,307. This, of course, is only cue feature of (lie 
total expense. 

The iSociety has four tomhs, in two cemeteries; one louih being 
lor children. The property, inchidinjj: the Asylum, grounds, furni- 
ture, utensils, drugs, lu)uses, tombs, etc., is vahunl at ^175,776. 

The membership luis increased from the twenty-seven in 184.^, to 
as higli a tigure as 1400 a( one tinu^ and in isso it was 1200. Its regu- 
lar annual monied revenues are $12,000, whicli enables it, as in l.S7«, to 
take care of 2396 patients, and contribute besides, as it has fre(|uently 
done, to other charitable purposes.— Suflering in France, from war, 
inundations, or other disa.sters, has always found itvS treasury and its 
heart oj)en. 

Its list of donors and donations is a long one : among the former, 
.Senator Soule ; Consul Roger; the New Orleans Medical Society ; the 
French Society of St. Louis; Judge Tissot, Sr. ; a French Reginu-nt; 
Fetin, the famous French aeronaut, and his patron, the Emperor Louis 
Napoleon. 

The names of the Officers who led the Society in Gen. Vinet's 
Division of the Procession of Sei)tember 26th, and the appearance of 
the members therein, are given on page 105. 



THE SEAMEN'S BETHEL. 

Some years before the war, there was a Seamen's Bethel estab- 
lished in the ui)per part of the city, near the Levee and Jackson street. 
It disappeared, however, during the war ; and it was reserved for Rev 
Dr. A. J. Witherspoon, formerly of Alabama, lo establish a new Bethel 
in that part of the city. This lie accomplislied in 1877. The building, 
located on Fulton, near Jackson street, was opened January 1st, 1878! 
Since then, it has steadily though slowly prospered,— chiefly through 
the excellent management and untiring zeal and devotion to "a good 
cause of the amiable, intelligent and persevering Chaplain. A number 
of our most influential citizens and charitable ladies gave early and 
energetic co-operation to his benevolent plans for the beneflt of the 
thousands of seamen who visit our port annually. With their hearty 
aid, and the ready response of the officers and crews of scores of ve.gsels, 
the Bethel has become a favorite resort for Mariners, where they And 
choice reading, hear good music, —themselves furnishing inanysongs 
and singers — are treated to lectures on a variety of topics, and attend 
religious service. The Seamen thoroughly ai)preciate the good work, 
and through them the Bethel and its worthy Chaplain are favorably 
known in all parts of the civilized world. 

Rev. Mr. Witherspoon was Chaplain of an Alabama regiment, 
composed of his friends and neighbors ; and was witli them in the 
midst of battle at Shiloh. When the regiment fell back to Corinth, he 
remained on the field, to help take care of his wounded friends and 
bury the dead. He was ecxually kind to the Federal wounded, who 
specially recognized his services. General Grant ordered his release, 
when this was known, but nevertheless he was long a prisoner on 
Johnson's Island. In a letter, published of late, Fatlier Witherspoon, 
referring to the late war and his imiirisonment, says: " I am in favor 
of forgetting the bad and reviving the good. We are one people and 
one country. Let us cherish the memory of the good on both sides, 
and dwell together in this broad land like brethren, in the bonds of 
peace and friendship.' ' 



218 APPENDIX. 



The interesting services held at the Bethel on " Memorial Mon- 
thly " are briefly sketched on page 58. There would have been a large 
delegation of i^eanien, headed by the Chaplain, in the Procession, but 
they were detained. 

LONGSHOREMEN'S BENEVOIiENT ASSOCIATION. 

This, another of our representative labor associations was organ- 
ized October 5th, 1873, and the following members were elected the 
lirst ofKcers: Thos. Fernon, President; Jolin Keegan, First Vice 
President; J. C Williams, Second Vice President; Chas. Hassinger, 
Recording Secretary ; J. J. McCarthy, Financial Secretary ; Andrew 
Blake, Treasurer ; Edward Wilson, Sergeant-at-Arms, and William 
ISIahoney, Marshal. 

The Association now numbers 800 members, and is in a substan- 
tial financial condition. Tlieir object is " to help each other as fellow- 
men and fellow-laborers." 

Their Oflicers on the day of the Garfield ceremony, and the 
important part the stout Longshoremen took in the Procession, are 
written on page 103. 



SCREWMEN'S BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION. 

This, the oldest and strongest labor organization in tlie city, was 
founded on November 18th, 1850, at the house of John Tees, a steve- 
dore, residing in the Third District. One hundred and twenty-one 
men set the wheels of the Association in motion ; but only about half 
of them were Screwmen, the otliers being friends who wished to 
ensure the success of the movement. A temporary organization was 
effected, and a committee appointed to draft a constitution and by- 
laws. At the next meeting the committee reported ; their work was 
approved, and the following officers elected : Geo. Hooper, President; 
James Campbell, First Vice President; James Fitzgerald, Second 
Vice President; E. A. F. Mitchell, Secretary; Henry Bier, Treasurer, 
and the following Board of Incorporation, John Baker, Alex. D. 
Perry, Wm. Callender, Henry Haynes, Wm. Chamberlain and Dr. 
Edgar. 

In April, 1851, the Association was incorporated by an act of the 
Legislature, signed by his Excellency, Gov. Joseph Walker, and 
attested by the Hon. (Jhas. Gayarre, Secretary of State. 

The Screwmen exhibited great pride and enthusiasm in their 
Association from the tirst. Theirs' was the earliest organization of 
its kind in the South ; and their constant and important connection 
with its chief staple gave tliem a prominence and influence that were 
merited by tlu;ir industry, and maintained ever since, despite many 
vi(-issitudes and many trials. 

As with every otiier interest of our city and State, the civil war 
affected the condition of the Association very seriously. At the 
beginning of the great struggle the Association was in a flourishing 
condition ; but so many of its members responded to the call for vol- 
unteerH that only the old and disabled members were left to take care 
of their interests. At one time there were but ten members left, who, 
nevertheless, successfully kept the alfairs of the Association in proper 
form. 

With the return of those members who survived the battles of the 



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war, and the aooessioii of now luoiiibor.^, the Assooiati«)n snoii regained 
its original vigor and |>n)s|)t'rity. The Screwnien liavc .sntlercd severely 
from the epiilemies tliat liavt' from lime to time scourged our city,— 
notably in tliat of 1S7S, in wliicii they received material assistance 
from sister organizations in (Jalveston*, Mobile and Savannah. As 
terrible an ordeal as this was, (hey again promptly recovered ; steadily 
increasing in numbers and prosperity, and to-llay have about Kmio 
members on their rolls, and a considerable amount of money in their 
treasury. 

The tSerewmen held their lirst meetings at the house of John Tee, 
where the Association was founded ; then at the fornu'r engiiu' house of 
Kagle No. 7, on Old J^evee street, l)elo\v the Customhouse; then at the 
corner of Common and l^'ront streets, whence they removed to their 
splendid liall, at the (H)rner of Exchange Alley and Bienville streets, 
where they now liold their meetings. 

At the grand Clay, Calhoun and Webster funeral jtageant in De- 
cember, iSol!, (already alluded to in this work) tiie ^crewmen's Jien- 
evolent Association iieailed the hfth grand division of the Procession. 
Their Marshal was A. W. Jourdan, and his aids were V. H. Ivy, VVm. 
Sutton, Joseph Hufty and Edward Thompson. The latter, who is still 
hale and hearty and actively engaged in business, is the only survivor 
of those five gentlemen. The Association, on the occasion, turned out 
two hundred and twenty-six men. 

Its magnificent appearance in the Procession of September iiOth, 
and its list of officers then are described on pages 102 and loa, 

UNITED SCLAVONIAN BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION. 

This Society was incorporated on the 12th of May, 1874. Its first 
officei's were: John Radovich, President, who still holds the office; 
A. Fucich, Vice President ; Michel Draskovich, Treasurer ; Chistoidier 
Vucasovich, Ilecording Secretary; John Ilaniadanovich, Marshal. The 
Association own a handsome tomb, the corner stone of which was 
laid on the 9th of April, 187(5. On the 5th of May, 1878, the officers and 
members had their first celebration to commemorate the organization 
of the Society. Their ajjpearance in the Procession of September 2()th, 
as described on pages 10(5-7, was a surprise to thousands of the specta- 
tors, who were unaware that tlie ancient Sclav race had so many and 
such infiuential representatives in our city. 



BUTCHERS' BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION. 

This Society might be called a French one, for nearly all of its 
members are of that nationality. It was organized on the 1st of October, 
1866, with Mr. Charles Crossman as President, and fifty members. It 
has steadily increased since in numbers and resources ; and its annual 
celebrations are noted for the gatherings of our tliflerent French Socie- 
ties, and the cheerful hospitality dispensed. The Association at present, 
has a membership list of two hundred, and has always upheld its re})u- 
tation for generous deeds, as was fully proven during the epidemics of 
1867 and 1878, and the overflow of 1880. The asylums and other homes 
for the poor and the destitute orphans, can also report many a deed of 
kindness by the stout-bodied and warm-hearted members of this Asso- 
ciation. 

Their parade in the Seventh Division did them infinite credit. 



THE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOL BOARD. 

The sj'stem of " public schools " was introduced in New Orleans 
some forty years ago. It derived from the excellent New England 
system, if we mistake not, and many of their first public school 
teachers, gentlemen and ladies, were from that section. Some of these 
pioneers arestill alive ; and, whilst some are actively engaged in legal or 
commercial pursuits, otlier delight still to teach the youthful mind. 
.Since ihe war, most of tlie prosperous private academies of the ante- 
belhuii daj-s have disappeared, and the Public Schools liave the field of 
education almost entirely to themselves. Despite a series of years of 
tinaiu'ial distress that seemed constantly to threaten the stoppage by 
the City of its funds for educational purposes, the Pul)lic Schools have 
continued to perform their invaluable work. They have been blessed 
during those trying years with a corps of able teachers, whose (juiet 
courage, energy and perseverance have never faltered in tlie perform- 
ance of duty. Their etibrts liave been sustained, especially of late 
years, by a succession of zealous and conscientious Boards of Directors ; 
and ijy a Superintendent whose reputation is national. 

The opening of our Public Schools to the colored children was a 
marked event in their history. President Garfield owed his success in 
life chiefly to education ; and his remarkably sensible advice on that 
point to a delegation of colored citizens from "the South, just before his 
inauguration, will long be remembered. Tlie colored children here 
enjoy equal facilities with the whites in the public schools. — In Decem- 
ber, 1881, the total number of pupils on the rolls was 24,401, and half of 
these were colored children. 

The Board of Directors and Officers, when the llesolution set forth 
on page 50 were adopted, September 24th, was as follows: 

Officers: Judge Walter H. Rogers, President; Rev. Jas. K. 
Gutheim, Vice I'resident ; Hon. Wm. O. Rogers, Chief Superinten- 
dent; Administrator B. T. Walshe, Treasurer ; Jno. J. O'Brien, Sec- 
retary. 

Directors: Messrs. Robert H. Bartley, Leon Bertoli, D. M. 
Brosuan, S. S. Carlisle, H. C. Castellanos, Joseph Collins, Eugene 
Desdunes, Thos. H. Handy, L. B. Hollingsworth, Pierre Lanaux, 
Frank McElroy, M. McNamara, Jno. P. Maurer, W. F. Mellen, Tim- 
othy O'Neil, P. W. Pettis, and Frederick Stringer. 

THE widow's answer. 

The following was the reply to the Resolutions of the Board : 

Cleveland, O., Dec 6, 188L 

Mr. .loll II J. (j'Brien, Secretary Board of School Director.s, Now Orleans: 

" Dear Sir — I am directed by Mi's. Garfield to gratefully acknowl- 
" edge for her family and herself the resolutions of sympathy of the 
" School Hoard of New Orleans. Please to convey the same to the 
" mendjers thereof. 

" Very truly your's, 

C. O. ROCKWELL. 



YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. 

The "Young Men's Cliristiun Association of New Orleans" was 
lirst organized in ISGi:. Among liie prominent workers then eonneeti^l 
with it, were iSlessrs. 'J'lios. I. Dix, W. (". linymoml, \V. ('• Siiepard, 
(). W. Hehne, U. (J. l^atting, Tlios. Sloo, L. KlkiuamlJaH. MeConnell. 

During tlie fearful epidemics of l.S-")3 and iHoS the Association 
resolved itself into a Relief Comnuttee, and did excellent work, as 
will he reniemhered hy many of those still living, whom it assisted. 
in 1858 it expended thus the sum of $U),(»0(), placed in its hands for the 
relief of the yellow fever suHerers. 

During the late war the organization was hroken ui), most of the 
young men entering the Confederate army. 

in iSTii a number of those formerly interested in the Society, 
together with others aware of its great value as a moral force, united 
in an ettbrt to place the Association upon a permanent foundation. 
Among the most prominent citizens engaged in its resuscitation were: 
M. M. Greenwood, Theo. S. Shute, W. C Rayiuond, W. C. Shepard, 
J. T. Sawyer, F. E. Richmond, Charles Clinton and J. li. Guthrie. 

In 187-4 the doors were closed, all work was suspended, and the 
Association was considered dead. But, in April, 1877, owing to the 
zealous endeavors of P. \V. Deindorf, a meeting for the formation of a 
new Association was held at the Felicity Street Methodist Church on 
the 17th of April, when eighteen gentlemen ettected an organization. 
Rev. Jno. T. Sawyer was elected President, and Wm. T. Hardie, Vice 
President. He, upon President Sawyer resigning, was unanimously 
elected in his place, and has continued to till that oflice with great 
acceptahility until the present date. 

In the sweeping yellow fever epidemic of 1878 the entire member- 
ship were engaged as a Relief Committee, with Wm. C. Shepard as 
Chairman; W.C.Raymond, Treasurer; P. W. Deindorf, Secretary, 
and a number of prominent citizens were Chairmen of Districts, as 
follows: John Ueher, G- A. Camhias, Rev. F, O. Koelle, Dr. C. C. 
Lyon, Albert Baldwin, A. J. Witherspoon, T. L. Raymond, C. H. C. 
Brown, R. W. Young, W- S. Terry, W. C. Raymond, L. H. Gardner, 

C. J. Young, W. G. Mitchell, G. H, Dwyer, Geo. H, Raymond, J. W. 
Dwyer, Thos. F. Walker, J. M. Pagaud, J. A. McLean, C. C. Cotting, 
J. G. Rowland, E. V. Hitch, W. C. Shepard, Van R. K. Hilliard, P. 
W. Deindorf, C H. Discjue, D. L. Mitchell, B. T. Walshe, Geo. P. 
Bowers, Rev. J. M. Beard and F. L. Matthews. 

They expended over |80,00(l, aflording relief to over 25,000 persons. 

Since that time the Association has been conlining its labors to 
the effort to reach young men, both citizens and strangers ; and by 
attracting them to the Society's Parlors, Reading Rooms and (Tymna- 
sium, prevent their frequenting places of bad repute. There are now 
about 400 members on the rolls of the Association. 

Its Officers and Chairmen of Committees, in September, 1881, were 
as follows : Wm. T. Hardie, President; B. T. Walshe, Vice President; 
Wm. W. Crane, Recording Secretary; M. M. Greenwood, Treasurer; 

D. L. Mitchell, General Secretary ; Albert Baldwin, Chairman Fi- 




VV. Dyer, Chairman of Committee on Employment 



APPENDIX. 



HOWARD ASSOCIATION. 

In the 3'C'ar Ls;iS, several young men in this city, — knowing the 
ahsoUite necessity of tlie best nursing in attaclvs of yellow fever — 
agreed that, in ease of an epideniie, tliey would take care not only of 
each other, but of other sick friends and acquaintances. That very 
sununer they were put to the test. The result of their charitable 
labors was the organization, in 1837, of the " Society of Uood Samari- 
tans." Their oliject was "to care for the j)Oor sick." Among their 
members was that estimable gentleman, Mr. James M. Vandegritl', 
more widely known of late years as the President of the widely known 
" Howard Association." 

That Society was incorporated in 1841-42 by Legislative act, for a 
l)eriod of twenty-five years, and re-incorporated in 1867. 

The Association's field of action, its duties and labors, are tersely 
set forth in the second article of its constitution. It speaks volume.'^ 
when it says: " 7V/e objeft of this Aasociation shall be to relieve the 
destitute and Kick in jJC'iods of epidemics. ^^ — Membership in the Asso- 
ciation results from voluntary api)lication, properly endorsed. The 
self-imposed duties are to visit the applicants for relief, and to see that 
their wants are attended to. This is facilitated by the division of the 
city into districts, when an epidemic begins ; and one or more mem- 
bers take charge of each district and are held resjionsible for the care of 
the applicants therein. Each patient has to be visited at least once a 
day, to see that his or her wants are supplied and that the nurses do 
their duty. No compensation whatever is allowed any oflicer or mem- 
ber for his service. And, to conclude : sect, nationality and politics 
are never thought of, talked of, or in any manner considered by 
the Association in the discharge of its duties to suffering humanity. 
That an applicant for relief is sick, and without njeans or friends, is 
sutticient. 

The " Chronicler " of this volume has been privileged from his con- 
nection with the Press of this City for many years, to see the Howards 
at work day and night, in epidemic after epidemic. Many of the 
olHcers and members of the early days of acquaintance with them, 
have crossed over the river, and are at rest; but the ranks have never 
been vacant when duty called, and the spirit of the modest but iui- 
mortal philanthropist, after whom the Association is so appropriately 
named, has ever dwelt in every bosom and inspired every generous 
heart and l)rain in this little band of Brethren. They were emulated, 
in all years, by the numerous jihysicians who i)romiitly tendered their 
services; and the magnificent contributions to their treasury by true 
mc!i and women everywhere, were expended, every dollar of them, for 
" the relief of the destitute sick." 

The Officers and Members, during the terrible epidemic of 1878 — 
when the Association received and exjiended over $383,000, and took 
care of 24,000 sick in this city, and nearly 12,000 in the country — were 
as follows : 

James M. Vandegriff", President ; F. 11. Southmayd, Secretary ; S. 
H. Newman, Treasurer; Messrs. C. H. Allen, Jules Aldig*?, L. W. 
Ha(|ui('', Philip Buchanan, Joiin M. Coos, T. Generelly, Henry (iinder, 
Thomas (ireen, Felix Legendre, C. E. Leverich, General' Fred. N. 
Ogden, John N. Payne, (Jeorge A. Pike, Dr. J. H. Pike, K. L. Robert- 
son, A. J. Vandegrili; J. li. Vinet, and Chas. E. Whitney. In addition, 
these volunteer members— Captain McOJlensey, of the United States 



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steamer Cnnnnicus; Captain Win. H. Beanhani and Cajitain K. A. 
( Uiibert and their coiuinands, ol" tlic Ivoiiisiana I'Meld ArCdlcry ; Col. 
W. Sehuiunberg and Captain H. H. Hooper, of Algiers ; Dr. Campbell, 
H. Williams, and F. Hathorn, of Carrollton. 



THE CLEAKING HOUSE. 

The New Orleans Clearinfr House was organized and eoninieiieed 
business on the 1st of June, iSTl*, with the following otlieers : 

John G. Gaines, President; Samuel H. Kenneily, Vice President; 
Isaac N. Maynard, Manager. 

Its present oftieers are: Joseph H. Oglesby, President; Samuel H. 
Kennedy, Vice President ; Isaac N. Maynard, Manager. 

There are ten Banks, members of the Association. These conii>rise 
all the Banks in New Orleans, except the Metropolitan Bank, :is fol- 
lows : 

The Citizens' Bank of Louisiana; the Union National Bank; the 
Louisiana National Bank; the State National Bank; the Germania 
National Bank; the New Orleans National Bank; the Hibernia 
National Bank; the Canal Bank; the Mutual National Bank, and 
the People's Bank. 

The'Clearing House is located at No. 31 Camp street, known as the 
"Tulane Building." 

Mr. jNIaynard is well known as one of our ablest accountants, and 
experienced' and reliable expert in financial questions. In charge of 
the Clearing House, he is " the right man in the right place." 



R. E. LEE MONUMENTAL ASSOCIATION. 

The Officers of this Association, founded shortly after Gen. Lee's 
death, to erect a monument to his memory, are: President, Chas. E. 
Fenner; First Vice President, G. T. Beauregard; Second Vice Presi- 
dent, M. Mu.sson ; Treasurer, S. H. Kennedy ; Recording Secretary, W. 
I. Hodgson; Corresponding Secretary, W. ISIiller Owen.— The Direc- 
tors are": W. J. Behan, Sam'l Boyd, E. A. Burke, Llc^yd R. Coleman, 
Jos. L.Harris, Jas. Jackson, I. L. Lyons, J. C. Morris, Archibald 
Mitchell, J.J. Mellon, A. H. May, Adolph Meyer, Alfred Afoulton, A. A. 
Maginnis, E. A. Palfrey, Henry Renshaw, Wm. B. Schmidt, and Col. 
W. T. Vaudry. 

At date, the classic monumental shaft, of Tennessee marble, rises 
in massive but elegant proportions from a lofty mound in the centre of 
Lee Circle (formerly Tivoli Circle), at the intersection of Triton Walk 
and St. Charles street, and awaits only the marble statue for comple- 
tion. This will be effected during 1S82. 



N. O. AUXILIARY SANITARY ASSOCIATION. 

The direct money loss inflicted on this city l»y the yellow fever 
epidemic of 1S78, was estimated by the Board of Health at no less a sum 
than $10,.572,00(). Several of our leading merchants, - chief among 
them, Mr. Edward Fenner— thereupon determined to treat such calam- 
ities in a business point of view, and to seek a remedy for them in pre- 
vention rather than in cure. 



The result was, the preliminary organization of the Auxiliary San- 
itary Association in the fall of LS78, and its incorporation in April, 
1879, for a period of twenty-five years. 

From the start, the movement met hearty approval and liberal 
jieciiniary support from the community. 

The act of incorporation defines the objects of the Association to 
be : " The execution of such lueasures as are, or may be, necessary for 
" the preservation of life and the public health, and to prevent the 
"introduction or spread of tlisease; and, to these ends, to aid and 
" assist the public authorities in carrying iuto effect all proper ordi- 
" nances or laws relative to public health ; and to adopt systematic 
" measures for the collection and proper distribution of inoney or 
" property derived from voluntary subscriptions or otherwise, in such 
" manner as will best tend to preserve life and property, and promote 
" the pros])erity and health of the city of New Orleans" 

The corporate powers were vested in an Executive Committee, 
composed of flfteen members, to be elected in April, annually ; and 
with authority to appoint sub-committees. The original incorporators 
and first Executive Connnittee were : Gen. Cyrus Bussey, Judge Geo. 
H. Eraughn, Wm. C. Black, Albert Baldwin, James Bowling, Chas. 
Clinton, P^dward Fenner, Geo. Foerster, Henry Ginder, Geo. Horter, 
K. Heath, S. Hernsheim, James Jackson, E. B. Kruttschnitt, Chas. 
Macready, H. J. Leovy, VV. B. Schmidt, I. H. Staufter, Chas. A.Whit- 
ney, Thos. J. Woodward, F. Wintz, and M. J. Zuntz,— all among our 
most intiuential citizens. 

Mr. Chas. A. Whitney, President of the "Morgan Railroad and 
Steamship Company," was elected President of the Association. 

The officers of the Association were: a President, nine Vice Presi- 
dents, a Treasurer, Secretary, Corresponding Secretary, and Sanitary 
Director. The latter officer has very extensive, but necessary powers 
conferred upon him. 

The Officers of the Association at date of this work, are: President, 
Chas. A.Whitney; First Vice President, Edward Fenner ; Second, 
Albert Baldwin; Third, E. B. Kruttschnitt; Fourth, Geo. Foers- 
ter; Fifth, Dr. S. E. Chaille; Sixth, Rev. Dr. Hugh Miller Thompson ; 
Seventh, Rev. Dr. Palmer; Eighth, Rev. James K. Gutheim ; Ninth, 
Professor Jesse.— Secretary, Joim C. Henderson.— Corresponding Sec- 
retary, W. M. Burwell.— Treasurer, Henry Ginder.— Sanitary Director, 
Dr. C. B. White : acknowledged to be among the best in 'his profes- 
sion as a Sanitarian. 

The Executive Committee : Gen. C. Bussey, Chairman ; Messrs- 
\. Baldwin, H. Ginder, W. J^. Schmidt, T. J. Woodward, Jas.'Jack- 
son, C. Clinton, Th. Forstall, Geo. Horter, Jules? Aldig(5, J. Born, W 
B. Lyman, Dr. T. G. Richardson, Dr. G. Devron.' 

It is not too much to say that this Association of " volunteer 
workers" has done more by its intelligent, zealous, practical labors, 
in three years, to make New Orleans a clean and^healthy^city.'^and to 
teach lier peojjle i)racticai ideas of sanitation, than all the State and 
city anthorities and Boards of Health, since New Orleans was founded. 
And that, too, economically, thoroughly and satisfactorily. 



APPENDIX. 225 



ITALIAN SYMPATHY. 

The following dispatch was sent over the wires to Clevehind on the 
night of the 26th of September : 

Nkw Oin-EANS, September 2t>th, 18S1. 
To Mrs. Jas. A. Garfleld, Cleveland, Ohio : 

" The Retail Fruit Dealers' Association of New Orleans, in special 
meeting, tender to Mrs. (Tarfield the warm, heartfelt sympathy of the 
sons of Italy, In their new homes, far away from their native land, 
ar)d enjoying the benefit of free government and a liberal adminis- 
tration" under the late President, our hearts go out in sympathy to the 
widow and the orplians. May God bless and protect you, is our prayer. 
Monuments will crumble to dust, draperies of mourning will droop and 
fade, the seasons will come and go, dust will return to dust, but the 
memory of your late husband will live in the hearts of the nation 
forever. With tears we salute you." 

L. FERRARI, President. 



LETTERS FROM WASHINGTON. 

TO THE COMMITTEE ON KESOLUTIONS. 

A H. May, Esq., Chairman of the Committee on Resolutions, 
adopted at the'meeting in the Washington Artillery Hall, September 
26th, sent a copy of them to Secretary Blaine. He received the follow- 
ing reply : 

Department of State, "I 
Washington, Oct. 12, 1881. j 

A. H. May, Esq., New Orleans, La. : 

" Sir— 

" It affords me sincere, although mournful gratification, to make 
feeling acknowledgment, in the name of the late President Garfield's 
grief-stricken family, of the many heartfelt tributes of sorrow for our 
common loss, and of admiration for the high character of the revered 
dead, which come to them and the American Government and people 
in this hour of deep affliction from every part of the Union, and espe- 
cially for the touching resolutions of public sympathy, adopted at a 
citizens' meeting on the 26th ult., of which you send me a copy under 
date of the 28th. 

" I am. sir, your obedient servant, 

JAMES G. BLAINE. 



to the committee on invitation. 

The following letters, to Administrator B. T. Walshe, Chairman 
of the City Committee on Invitation, speak for themselves : 

Department of State, \ 
Washington, October 12, 1881. ( 
B T Walshe, Esquire, Chairman of Committee of City Council, New Orleans, La. : 
'^^ Sir -—It affords me sincere, although mournful, gratification to 
make feeling acknowledgment, in the name of the late President 
Garfield's grief-stricken family, of the many heartfelt tributes of 
sorrow for our common loss and of admiration for the high character 

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226 APPENDIX. 



of the revered dead, which come to them and the American govern- 
ment and i)eople in tliis hour of deep affliction from every part of tlie 
Union, and especially for the touching programme of funeraKservices 
on the 2(Jth ultimo, which accomitanies your formal invitation to me 
to be present. 

" I am, sir, vour oi)edient servant, ';"'^ - ^^y 

JAMES G.^BLAINE. 



Post Office Department, \ 
Washington, D. C, October 10, 1881. j 

" Dear Sir: — Please receive my thanks for your card of invitation 
to be present at the funeral obsequies of our late President, which I 
shall retain with many other mementoes of that sad occasion that 
have come to me from various parts of the country. 

" Very respectfully, 

T. L. JAMES, 

Postmaster General. 
Hon. B. T. Walshe, Chairman, New Orleans, J^a. 



THE FIRE DEPARTMENTS 



The Old City Organization. 



its early days—presidents, engineers, etc. — THE DIFFERENT 

COMPANIES. 

Like many of the oldest and now most flourishing and strongest 
organizations in New Orleans, her Fire Department had a very modest 
and even puny beginning. 

Up to the spring of 1829, there would appear to have been no Fire Com- 
pany regularly organized. From the minutes of the first regular meeting 
of Volunteer No. 1, held April 19th, 1829, it appeal's that twenty- 
four members were present, otilcered by Foreman, Henri Buckman ; 
First Assistant, Hiram Houghton ; Secretary, A. Hendrickson, and 
Steward, S. Short. At the next meeting, six days after, held at the 
Orleans Cotton Press, a fire-coat of duck linen was selected as the 
uniform. 

The Company was possessed of a hand-engine. Buckets, to be 
passed from hand to hand, supplemented deficiencies. 

In the latter part of the year 1829, a fire took place at Hart's 
( 'otton Press, on St. Charles street, between Common and Gravier, in 
which five thousand bales of cotton were all ablaze. The destruction 
of property threatened to be so wide-spread, despite all efforts to stop 
the fire, that the nuiltitude of s])ectators were demoralized and 
l)aralyzed. 

Then, George Wait, My ford McDougall, Daniel (joodman, and D. 



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8. Woodruff led a party of brave men to Leeds' Foundry on Girod 
street; took charge of the fire engine there, belonging to Mr. Leeds,— 
it was nicknamed the " Brass Back,"— and rendered such ellicient ser- 
vice with it at the conflagration that they conceived the idea of 
organizing a new tire company. 

This was effected January 22d, 1830. The Company was duhhcd 
the "Brass Back," and its officers were: Foreman, Geo. Wait; First 
Assistant, D. S. Woodruff; iSecond Assistant, Chas. A. Replein ; Sec- 
retary, Myford McDougall ; Treasurer, John Bein ; .Steward, Calvin 
Porter. 

On the 8th February, 1830, the name of the new company was 
changed to Mis.sissippi No. 2; and on March 10th, 1880, their charter 
was granted them through James Stewart and R. H. Brunet, of 
"No. 1," who had been sent for the purpose to Donaldsonville, the 
then State Capital. — The engine remained at the foundry, being gra-' 
tuitously provided by Mr. Jedediah Leeds, until October aoth, 1830, 
when the Company was provided with its own engine by the " Louis- 
iana State Insurance Company," at a cost of §1507 30. 

The organization of Mississippi No. 2 led to a spirit of rivalry 
between the Companies and the consequent introduction of horses, a 
dollar being given to the owner of the horse which passed its compet- 
itor to a fire, and two dollars to the person giving the first alarm at 
the engine house. 

In the summer of 1833, Lafayette No. 3 and Washington 
No. 4 spVang from the loins of the mother companies, making four 
companies in all. 

Lafayette No. 3 changed its name in 1846 to Vigilant No. 3. 
Washington No. 4 was reorganized as Neptune No. 4, but, falling 
into bad repute in 1855, it was excluded from the Association, and 
disbanded. 

On April 27th, 1834, the Pioneer Company adopted a new consti- 
tution, changing its name to " Columbia No. 1," until the member- 
ship exceeded fifty men, when Sam E. Kip, a member, withdrew, and 
on August 24th, 1834, organized Columbia No. 5. No. 1 then resumed 
its old title of " Volunteer." 

In 1834, Mechanics No. 6 was organized, without aid from any 
of the other companies, and being almost exclusively composed of 
men in Leeds' Foundry, selected the appropriate name it still bears. 

On October 18th, 1834, there being then six Companies in existence, 
a convention was called of five delegates from each Company to consider 
the proposition of Mr. R. H. Brunet to organize a Firemen's Char- 
itable Association. The delegates who assembled in response, 
were as follows : 

THE CHARITABLE ASSOCIATION. 

From Volunteer No. 1 : A. Hendrickson, J. Moses, H. B. Skeels, J. 
D. Haynes and W- C. Brewer.— From Mississippi No. 2 : Geo. Bedford, 
Benj. Basey, Ralph Hubbard, Geo. Wait, l)aniel Goodman. — From 
Lafayette No. 3: Lewis H. Pigeon, J. F. Barthelemy, L. Bernard, A. 
Nedaud and John Johnson. — From Washington No. 4: Louis Mal- 
lard, C. P. Heartte, G. Hall, A. C. Labatt, P. C Guyol.— From Colum- 
bia No. 5: Anthony Parker, Samuel E. Kip, R. H. Brunet, G. M. 
Waggoner, John Duhunt. — From Mechanics No. : James English, 
Chas. Diamond, B. F. Stafford, James Dickson and J. E. Webb. 

A Committee of F'ive was appointed, consisting of Geo. Bedford, 
L. H. Pigeon, R. H. Brunet, W. C. Brewer and L. Mallard, to report 



on the subject of tlie proposed Association. The convention then 
adjourned until tlie 28d of October, when they again met, and on receiv- 
ing a favorable report from the Committee, it was approved and sent to the 
various Companies for their final and separate notification, and for the 
election of directors and delegates, three from each Company. 

All the Companies ratifying the report and electing directors as 
prescribed, a meeting was held on Monday, November 17th, 1834, when 
the following Directors assembled and completed the organization : 

For Volunteer No. 1 : A. Hendriclvson, Josepli D Haynes and John 
R. Pully. — Mississippi No. 2 : Geo. Bedford, Ben Casey and A. W. 
Haines.' — Lafayette No. 3 : L. A. Pigeon, S. Pigeon, N. Nedaud. — 
Washington No. 4: L. Mallard, J. Vanschaick, B. M. George. — Colum- 
bia No. 5: Samuel E. Kip, J. 8. Goodale, L. Parker. — Mechanics No. 
tj : Geo. Brooks, James English and Chas. Diamond. 

At the temporary organization, Ben Casey, of Mi.s.slssippi No. 2, 
presiding, the following first regular Board of Officers was elected : 
President, Chas. E- Hozey ; Vice President, R. H. Brunet; Secretary, 
A. C Labatt ; Treasurer. Ralph Hubbard. 

On the 4th of March, 1835, the Firemen's Charitable Associa- 
tion was duly incorporated by the Legislature, and ever since that 
day has been observed by the Firemen of New Orleans, by an annual 
parade tliat is annually the centre of intense intei'est and universal 
admiration. 

The following is a complete list of the Officers of the Association 
from its regular organization to the present year, as they were succes- 
sively elected : 

1835— Chs. F, Hosey, Mississippi No. 2, President; Geo. Bedford, 
Mississippi No. 2, Secretary; R. H. Brunet, Columbia No. 5, Vice 
President; Trad Ferry, Mississippi No. 2, Treasurer. 

1836 — George Bedford, Mississippi No. 2, Pi-esident ; Anthony 
Parker, Columbia No. 5, Vice President; Benjamin Casey, Mississippi 
No. 2, Secretary ; Irad Ferry, Treasurer. 

1837-38 — George Bedford, President; John Hoey, Volunteer No. 1, 
V^ice President; Benj. Casey, Secretary; Anthony Parker, Treasurer. 

1839 — George Bedford, President; Joseph Knettles, Louisiana 
Hose Company, Vice President; Benj. Casey, Secretary; Anthony 
Parker, Treasurer. 

1840-41 — George Bedford, President; Joseph Knettles, Vice Presi- 
dent ; Thomas Lagan, Columbia No. 5, Secretary; Benj. Casey, 
Treasurer. 

1842— George Bedford, President; Joseph Knettles, Vice Presi- 
dent; Thos. Lagan, Secretary; Jos. Cockayne, Treasurer. 

1843— W. Bogart, No. 14, President; Louis Mallard, No. 4, Vice 
President; D. St. Osbourne, Secretary; S. W. Waters, Louisiana Hose, 
Treasurer. 

1844 — W. Bogart, President; P. CornifF, No. 7, Vice President; 
Thos. Ijagan, Secretary ; E. W. Wells, Treasurer. 

1845 — J. A. Ameling, Mississippi No. 2, President; P. Corniff', Vice 
President; Thos. Lagan, Secretary; George Mayne, No. 17, Treasurer. 

184(i— J. A. Ameling, President; P. Corniff, Vice President ; F. W. 
Blodget, Secretary; J. P. Breedlove, Protector Hose Co., Treasurer. 

1847 — J. A. Ameling, President; G. \V. Harby, Vice President ; 
F. W. Blodget, Secretary ; J. P. Breedlove, Treasurer. 

1848— G. W. Harby, President; C Brugniens, No. 7, Vice Presi- 



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dent ; Wm. H. Slack, Mississippi No. 2, Secretary ; J. E, Caldwell, 

Treusurer. 

1849— P. Cornift", President; C Brusnicns, Vice President; A. 
Helauger, No. 9, .Secretary; J. E. Cukhvell, Treasurer. 

1850—1. N. Marks, No. 13, President; John Adams, No. 5, Vice 
President; E. H. Fosdick, Mississippi 2, Secretary; E. L. liercier, 
No. 10, Treasurer. 

1851— Henry Bier, President; A. Moulton, H. and L. No. 2, 
Secretary. 

1852— Sam. G. Risk, President; F. F. Parmele, Mississippi No. 2, 
Secretary. 

1858— John E. Caldwell, President; John L. Viven, H. and L. 
No. 3, Secretary. 

1854— John E. Caldwell, President. 

1855— Gursheim Kurscheedt, President. 

1856—1. N. Marks, President; W. B. Schmidt, No. 9, Vice Presi- 
dent; Josiah Folger, Vol. 1, Secretary; James Beggs, No. 20, Treasurer. 

1857- 1. N. Marks, President; E. B. Smedes, No. 13, Vice Presi- 
dent ; Josiah Folger, Secretary ; James Beggs, Treasurer. 

18,58_X, K. Marks, President; R. L. Bruce, No. 14, Vice President; 
i Josiah Folger, Secretary; Jas. Beggs, Treasurer. 

I 1859—1. N. Marks, Pre.'^ident; Jno. C. McLellan, Vice President; 

Josiah Folger, Secretary ; Jas. Beggs, Treasurer. 

1860-61-1. N. Marks, President; Jos. P. Horner, La. Hose Co., 
Vice President ; Josiah Folger, Secretary ; Jas. Beggs, Treasurer. 

1862—1. N. Marks, President; F. Camerden, Miss. No. 2., Vice 
President ; Jas. Delamore, No. 7, Secretary ; Jas. Beggs, Treasurer. 

1863—1. N. Marks, President; S. P. DeLabarre, No. 24, Vice Presi- 
dent; Jas. Delamore, Secretary ; Jno. McCaflrey, No. 6, Treasurer. 

1864.— I. N. Marks, President ; Jas. Douglas, No. 6, Vice President ; 
Jas. Delamore, Secretary ; Jno. McCaffrey, Treasurer. 

1865— I. N. Marks, President; G. W. R. Bayley, Louisiana Hose, 
Vice President; Jas. Delamore, Secretary; Jno. McCaffrey, Treasurer. 

1866—1. N. Marks, President ; S. P. D. Labarre, Vice President ; 
Jas. Delamore, Secretary ; A. Dapremont, No. 6, Treasurer. 

1867—1. N. Marks, President ; Geo. H. Braughn, Mississippi No. 
2, Vice President ; W. V. Crouch, Mississippi No. 2, Secretary; A. 
Dapremont, Treasurer. 

1868—1. N. Marks, President; Geo. H. Braughn, Vice President; 
Geo. Delamore, No. 24, Secretary ; A. Dapremont, Treasurer. 

1869—1. N. Marks, President; Geo. H. Braughn, Vice President ; 
W E. McDermott, No. 5, Secretary ; A. Dapremont, Treasurer. 

1870—1. N. Marks, President; Geo. H. Braughn, Vice President; 
C. C. Flanagan, No. 13, Secretary ; John Gauche, Jr., No. 6, Treasurer. 
1871—1. N. Marks, President; Geo. H. Braughn, Vice President; 
C. C. Flanagan, Secretary ; Alfred Belanger, No. 9, Treasurer. 

1872-73—1. N. Marks, President; John McCaffrey, Vice President; 
C. C. Flanagan, Secretary; A. Dapremont, Treasurer. 

1874—1. N. Marks, President ; Louis Alfred Wiltz, No. 9, Vice 
President ; C. C. Flanagan, Secretary ; W. Jas. Chevallier, H. and L. 
No. 2, Treasurer. 

187,5-76—1. N. Marks, President; AV. H. Manning, >o. 12, \ice 
President; C. C. Flanagan, Secretary ; W. J. Chevallier, Treasurer. .^ 
1877-78—1. N. Marks. President ; W. H. Manning, Vice Presi- 
dent; Henry Andry, H. and L. No. 4, Secretary ; W. J. Chevallier, 
Treasurer. 



230 APPENDIX. 



1879-80-81—1. N. Marks, President; G. H. Braughn, Vice Presi- 
dent; Leon Bertoli, H. and L. No. 4, Secretary; (J. C. Flanagan, 
Treasurer. 

The benevolent features of the Firemen's Charitable Association 
are deserving of the highest praise. The Association provides for the 
sick, as well as for those members of the different Companies disabled in 
tlie disciiarge of their self-imposed duty ; furnishing physicians, medi- 
cines, nursing, etc. The dead are buried, and the widows and orphans 
supported and cared for with kindest consideration. The practical 
evidence of this noble work of the Association is shown from the last 
pay roll, which gives the nam'es of three hundred and sixty -nine 
widows, three hundred and thirty-four half orphans and seventy-one 
whole orphans, as the recipients of its bounty, at an expense annually 
of $24,755 21. 

THE PRESIDENT. 

Isaac Newton Marks, whose name appears so often in the pre- 
ceding paragraphs, was born May 5th, 1817, in Charleston, S. C He 
came to this city in October, 1836, and has resided here ever since, always 
engaged in commercial pursuits — of late years, holding the position of 
President of the Firemen's Insurance Company. In the year 1843, he 
first became identified with the Fire Departmeut.aud in 1850 was elected 
to the Presidency of the Association. After serving one term he with- 
drew from office, but continued to take an active part in fire matters 
as a member of the Board of Delegates. 

In 1856, Mr. Marks, yielding to the solicitations of those who 
knew him best, accepted' the Presidency of the Association ; and 
throughout the changes of war and civil government, by the unani- 
mous vote of all the Fire Companies, has retained that honorable posi- 
tion to the present day. During all this long period he has managed 
the financial and other interests of the Association with eminent 
ability and entire success. He has always taken a special interest in 
the charitable features of the Association, and its Widows and 
Orphans are indebted to his generous and practical sympathy for 
many of their comforts. 

THE SECRETARY. 

The present Secretary of the Association, Mr. Leon Bertoli, was 
a member of the City Council under the administration of Mayor 
Pilsbury, in 1876, and had charge of the Department of Water Works 
and Public Buildings. As will be seen by the Association's record, 
lie was first elected Secretary in 1879 ; and during the years he has 
served the Association, has intelligently and faithfully discharged the 
onerous duties incumbent on him. 

THE CHIEF ENGINEERS. 

In 1855 the City Council made an effort to conduct the Depart- 
ment, and appointed Mr. James H. Wingfield as Chief Engineer, but 
the movement was a failure. 

Judge Durell, tlien a member of the Council, presented an ordi- 
nance for the government of a Fire Department, to be operated by 
contract, and in December of that year the contract was adjudicated to 
the present Association for five years. The contract has been con- 
tii^ued from time to time, until November, 1881, when it was sold at 
public auction and purcliased by the Firemen's Charitable Asso- 
ciation. 



APPENDIX. 2.il 



111 Jrouary, 1856, the Association elected Mr. Alfred Belanger, of 
Creole Ni.^. as its first Chief Eii.u:ineer. He was re-elected in January, 
1857. In January, 1858, Mr. John F. <4rul>er, of Jackson, No. 18, was 
elected, and re-elected in 18o!). ju January, 1S(>(), Mr. Behuif,'er was 
again elected. In January, 1801, Mr. David liradluiry, of Hope Hook 
and Ladder No. 3, was elected, and was re-elected "in LSfiL' and 18(i.3. 
In 1864 Mr. Belanger was again elected, and re-elected in 18()5. In ]8()0, 
Mr. Jacob Leidner was elected, and re-elected in 18()7. In January, 
1868. Mr. Philip ]\IcCabe was elected 

In January, 1869, Mr. Thomas O'Connor, the present incumbent, 
was elected, and re-eltcted in 1870 and 1871, when a change, making the 
term of office five years, took place. He was elected in 1872, 1877. and 
1881. Through his impartiality, integrity, and attention to duty he 
has won the esteem of the entire Department. I5eing an engineer by 
profession, he is familiar with all the machinery. The matter of 
extinguishing fires has been made a special study by him, and he lias 
brought the Department to a standard which makes" it second to none. 
Mr. O'Connor has a national reputation among the leading engineers 
of the country. He was born in this city, June 29th, 1839. He became 
a member of Hose Company No. 19 in l'854; and ^vhen it disbanded in 
1855, he joined Columbia No. 5. 

THE COMPANIES. 

VoLUNTEEK No. 1 — Motto : "Be just and fear not : Perseverance 
and industry overcome every obstacle."— Organized April 29th, 1829, 
with twenty-four men. Incorporated March 16th, 1830. 

MiLNEBURG No. 1.— Organized January loth, and incorporated 
P^'ebruary 26th, 1852, with Geo. Whitmore as President ; M. Leinniger, 
Vice President; John Jacobs, Secretary ; Miguel Brisolari, Treasurer; 
Geo. B. Leinniger, Foreman ; Jacob Meyers, First Assistant ; John 
Geiger, Second Assistant, 

Lafayette Hook and Ladder No. 1. — Motto : " Our deeds, our 
reward." — Organized with twenty-six members, February 24th, 1848. 
First officers: D. G. Dewees, Foreman; Casper Auch, First Assist- 
ant ; R. Van Dolsen, Second Assistant. 

Mississippi No. 2. — Motto: " Non nobis." — Organized January 
22d, 1830, with forty-two members, as Louisiana Fire Company. On 
February 8th, 1830, changed name to Mississippi No. 2. Incorporated 
March 1st, 1832. 

American Hook and Ladder Company No. 2.— Motto : " We raise 
tosave." — Organized with twenty-one members, Augustl3th, 1841. First 
officers : J. S. Thatcher, Foreman ; H. Gillingham, First Assistant ; 
Geo. Milias, Second Assistant; L. D. W. Hoyes, Secretary; David 
Hadden, Treasurer. Incorporated April 2d, 1842. 

Vigilant No. 3. — This Company was organized October 14tli, 
1848, by the German element of the Second District, and on the 14th of 
November, 1846, was regularly incorporated. On .\pril 27th, 1867, 
they became the owners of a steam fire engine, in lieu of tlie old-fash- 
ioned hand machine, which had done them and tiie public sucii good 
service. The old records of this Company are wholly in the German 
language. The founders were : A.Young, F. Kessler, A. Roux, W. 
Klein, L. Balser, P. Funk and A. Buhler. The first officers were : 
E. P. Coulter, Foreman; A. Young, First Assistant; J. Denis. 
Second Assistant; A. Roux, Secretary, and M. Eschman, Treasurer. 
The Company's motto is : " Never despair." 



Hoi'K Hook AND Laddkk No. 3. — Motto : " Ready fij: dut3\" — 
Org'anized with seventeen niemliers, Fehruary L5th, 1851*; %ith the 
following otlieers ; Jos. Hoyt President; Bam'l Barnes, Secretary; 
Frank Berge, Treasurer; David Bradbury, Foreman; J. Q. Adams, 
First Assistant ; Thos. W. Stallin^L^s, Hecond Assistant. Among the 
founders were: Tlios. N. Boylan, now Chief of Police; Wni. Austin, 
M. Carroll, V. Hanlon, and C. Driscoll. Incoriwrated June 15th, 1851. 

Pelican Hook and Ladder No. 4. — Motto: "With willing- 
hearts we hasten to the rescue." — This Company was organized April 
ISth, 1854, and incorporated July 14th, 1854, with twenty-six members. 
The first officers were: President. C. N. Oliver; Vice President, Wni. 
G. Vincent; Foreman, Lafayette Guyol ; First Assistant, J. Herrman ; 
Second Assistant, P. A. Hebrard ; Secretary, E. Ducatel; Treasurer, 
Ernest Miltenberger. In addition to these gentlemen, among the 
founders were A. Roux, S. Cucullu, A. Saucier, and Martin Gordon. 
The original location was on Toulouse, near Rampart street, where the 
Company remained until they built their new house on Basin, near 
Conti street. Their truck, "Leon Bertoli," named after their many 
termed President, is of the latest improved, with extension ladders 
and steering apparatus, and is the handiwork of the Schwartz Bros., 
of Union street, in this city. 

Columbia No. 5.— Motto: "Always ready."— Organized Septem- 
ber 7th, 1884, as a branch of No. 1; incorporated April 2d, 1835. First 
officers: S. E. Kipp, President; J. S. Goodale, Foreman; John 
Adams, First Assistant; Geo. Clark, Second Assistant; M. C- Quick, 
Secretary ; C. White, Treasurer. 

Louisiana Hose Company.— Motto : " In periculo promptus." — 
Organized, with fifty members, March 30th, 1836. Incorporated March 
nth, 1837. First officers: Davy Toljy, Foreman; H. Gillingham. 
First Assistant; Wm. Salker. Second Assistant; J. P. Nesbit, Presi- 
dent; W^ni. Theset, Vice President; H. G. Heartt, Secretary; Chas. F. 
Hozey, Treasurer. This was the first Company to introduce a steam 
fire engine regularly into the Department. 

Mechanics No. 6. — Motto : " United we stand, divided we fall." — 
Organized September 1st, 1S34. Incorporated March 1st, 1835. Early 
records destroyed by fire. 

Eagle No. 7.— Motto: "Pro bono publico." — Organized Decem- 
ber 19th, 1836, with twenty-seven members. Incorporated March 24th, 
1840. First officers: J. Von Schaick, Foreman; Dr. J. W. Hall, First 
Assistant; J. L. Harris, Second Assistant; P. Connolly, Secretary; A. 
D. Crossman, subsequently Mayor of New Orleans, Treasurer. 

Phcenix No. 8. — Motto: "Semper paratus." — Organized, with 
twenty-nine members, March 25th, 1845, with the following officers: 
Thos. C. Poole, Foreman ; James Kelly, First Assistant ; Wm. Cal- 
lender, Second Assistant; O. L. Curtis, Secretary; E. W. Brown, 
Treasurer. Incorporated May 14th, 1845. 

Creole No. 9. — Motto:' "Union and Confidence." — Organized 
and incorporated July 4th, 1837. The first officers wei'e : Louis 
Mallard, Foreman ; D. Farrar, First Assistant: Tim Donnelly, Second 
Assistant; Ren6 Vienne, Secretary; A. Morton, Treasurer. 

Louisiana No. 10. — Organized July i8th, 1862, by a number of 
our Spanish residents. Among its founders were F. Sambola, J. Fulda, 
and D. Fatjo. Incorporated July 18th, 1836, with the motto, "Good 
will," by a jiumber of Creole residents of the then First Municipality, 
witii the following officers: F. M. Guyol, President; T. Calonge, Sec- 



APPENDIX. 233 



retary ; T. Laurant, Treasurer ; IT. B. Guyol, Foreman ; Armand Ouyol, 
First Assistant ; T. Berot, Second Assistant. 'I'lie ])roci'e(iinKs of the 
Company were condiieted entirely in tiie Frendi luiiKiiaKe until Feb- 
ruary 9th, 1843, when, by a^reenient, a reorganization was elleeted, 
and Louisiana No. 10 became a company of (iermaii speaking mem- 
bers, with the following named persons as their first olTieers: L. Hoff- 
mann, Foreman and President; Ph. Hiinerferuth, First A.ssistant ; 
Ph. Reich, Second Assistant; F. Sambola, Treasurer; Chas. Umbers, 
Secretary. 

This Company is in a flourishing financial condition, and does 
good service. 

Trad Ferry No. 12.— Motto : "Our Name, our Example."— Or- 
ganized and incorporated April IGth, is.srt, with tliirty-eight members. 
Named after one of the most zealous and self-.sacriticing firemen of the 
olden time. 

Perseverance No. 13.— Motto: " Rougli and Ready."— Organized, 
with sixteen members, March 30th, 1<S38; incorporated March 2oth, 
1840. The loss of the early re(H:)rds of this Company and of those of 
No. 12, prevent any detail of their early history. 

Philadelphia No. 14— Motto: '" A friend in need is a friend 
indeed."— Organized July 4th, and inaugurated October 12th, 1837. 
The first Foreman was Dr. David J. Rogers, and among its early 
friends and workers were those influential citizens, Wilhelinus 
Bogart, W. C. Raymond, D. R Carroll, Geo. Allen, Phil. MeCabe, 
Sani'I Bell, John D. Nicholson, John McCarthy, and John C. Stew- 
art.— a few of whom are still alive. This Company claims to have 
been the first to introduce horses to engine, in 1S58. 

No. 14 brought out from the North a new double-decked engine, 
expecting to win with it the champion prize eagle oflfered by Mayor 
Freret, in August. 1843. Engines Nos. 2, 7 and 14 competed. No. 7 
won : hence her title, " Eagle." No. 14 then assumed the title " Phil- 
adelphia," from the place where her new engine was made. 

Jackson No. IS.— Motto : "To the Rescue."— Organized August 
3d, 1845. Incorporated March 18th, 1856. 

Washington No. 20.— Motto : " Onward."— Organized February 
22d, 1848, with twenty-five men. Its Officers are : Wash. Marks. 
President; L. Solomon j^ Vice President; J. Lawrence, Secretary; E. 
Stumpf, Treasurer; J. Wier, Foreman; J. Martin, First Assistant; 
p. Lobell, Second Assistant. 

Orleans No. 21.- Motto: "Trust in Us."— This Company, one 
of the most popular below Canal street, and for efficiency ranking 
with the best in the Department, was organized Sunday, April 21st, 
1850, at the residence of Mr. Jean Bertrand, corner of Rampart and 

^4- A Ti Ti strppt's 

The first officers were: James L. Lamothe, Foreman; A. Brunet, 
First Assi.stant ; Adolph Labadie, Second Assistant ; Louis O. Huard, 
Secretary ; Geo. Clark, Treasurer. 

The Company's engine house was then as now at the corner of 
Claiborne and St. Peter streets. 

The Company became an incorporated body June 1st, 18a0, and 
was re-chartered April 20th, 1877. 

During the late war the members of No. 21 were among the first 
to respond to the cry to arras, and many of them fell in the many 
battles wherein Louisiana's sons were engaged. 

At the great fire on Magazine street, in December, 1863, Michael 

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234 APPENDIX. 



Buckley, the First Assistant Foreman, was crushed to deatli by tlie 
fulling walls. 

The Company has now a roll of seventy exempt, and thirty-eight 
active members. It owns a new third-class Ahrens steam tire engine, 
a good and servicable hose carriage, a thousand feet of new hose, three 
splendid horses, and all the modern improvements for hooking up, 
making fast time, and putting tlie engine to work. The horses are 
attended to by the veteran John Holden, who has been with the Coni- 
]>any for sixteen years. Capt. E. R. Ferguson, a practical engineer of 
twenty-five years' standing, attends to the Steamer. 

.7ei- FKRSON, No. 22. — Motto : " Ready at the first sound."— Organ- 
ized April 27th, 1845, with the following officers : Wm. Schmidt, 
Foreman] Thos. Jones, First Assistant; M. Frank, iSecond Assistant ; 
R. Rust, Secretary ; P. Rice, Treasurer. Incorporated April 3d, 1847. 

Chalmette No. 23. — Motto : " Our lives we risk our friends to 
save." — This Company was originally organized July 27th, 18.50, in the 
old City of Lafayette, as Washington No. 4, and on July 1st, 1851, reor- 
ganized, under the present name, with tifty-two members, officered as 
follows : James Jolls, Foreman ; Timothy Tracy, First Assistant; E. 
Donlin, Second Assistant; John Dalj', Treasurer; H. P. Carpenter, 
Secretary. 

Crescent No. 24.— Motto : " True to the call."— Organized Octo- 
ber loth, 1853, by R. L. Robertson, Jr., M. Brown, J. Morrison and 
several others whose names and the names of the orginal Officers it has 
been impossible to learn. The Company was incorporated December 
loth, 1853. 

THE FIRE ALARM TELEGRAPH. 

Anterior to the year 1860, when a fire occurred, the bells were 
rung from church steeples, market cupolas, and engine houses, for 
each Municipality, without any precise method of localizing the 
threatened point of danger. Great and onerous were the exercise and 
toil thus induced, ere the firemen could reach the scene of conflagra- 
tion. In 1855, the late Professor C. G. Forshey, civil engineer, devised 
a plan of telegraph alarms which he submitted to the Council, but it 
was rejected, as many other valuable scientific ideas have been, that 
came afterwards into general use. Boston, Mass., adopted a system of 
electric telegraph signals for fires, which, in 1860, found its way to 
New Orleans, and has since been in use, each year witnessing im- 
provements, until now our automatic box system ranks with the best 
in the United States. Chief O'(jonnor recommends the addition of 
the telephone to complete the " Alarm Signal " system. 

year's work AND PRESENT STATUS. 

The work of the Department in the First, Second, Third and 
Fourth Municipal Districts, under Chief O'Connor's superintendence, 
for the year 1881, consisted in attending one hundred and thii'ty- 
tive fires, as follows : eighteen in January, thirteen in February, 
filteen in March, eleven in April, thirteen in May, six in June, ten in 
.July, twelve in August, thirteen in September, twelve in October, four 
in November, and eight in December; or an average of a call on the 
services of the Firemen every third day in the year. 

Seven of these fires were caused by incendiarism, six by lamj) 
exj)losions, three by spontaneous coinbustion. The estimated amount 
of insurance involved was $110,000; the estimated loss $518,834. 



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The Department has in service nineteen steam engines, nineteen 
hose carriages, four liook and huldcr trucks, and one hand engine. 
Tlie Babcock clieniical engines used within the limits of the four Dis- 
tricts, are a separate organization, under Captain Kolinski's superin- 
tendence, and are tiie property of tlie Board of Underwriters. The 
two organizations get along in complete harmony. 

The line discipline of the l)e]);irtnient, its lull ecpiipment, its 
thorough elliciency, liave attracted the praise of all experienced 
judges; and its chief otlicers are in frecjuent receipt of letters from 
leading Eurojjean municipal governments asking for information 
concerning it, so as to amend and improve their own fire de])artments. 

Of late, the City Council provided for a regularly Paid Fire De- 
partment, and the Firemen's Ciiaritable Association took the contract. 
iSonie changes have been made in the forms and powers of the man- 
aging bureaux, but they will only add to the Department's eiti(.*iency- 
and usefulness. 



FIFTH DISTRICT DEPARTMENT. 

Up to the early part of the year 1851, the town of Algiers, on the 
right bank of the Mississii^pi, opposite New Orleans, depended for the 
extinguishment of fires,— that were few and far between — on the 
"bucket brigade " of its own citizens, and the dispatch to tlieir aid, by 
the ferry boat, in cases of emergency, of an engine company from the 
City. 

At the period above mentioned, however, a large conflagration took 
place which entailed such heavy losses on the insurance comimnies 
that they refused to assume any more risks, under the then existing 
circumstances. Thereupon, an idea that had been entertained for 
some time in Algiers, was realized by the organization, July 8th, 
1851, of a Fire Engine Company. The name selected was : 

Pelican No. 1. — The motto: " Ready relief." — Tlie officers then 
elected were: Wm. Morris, President; Chas. A. Harris, Secretary; 
Wm. Sarazin, Treasurer; Robert Roberts, Foreman; Wm. Gerard, 
First Assistant; Chas. H. Kepper, Second Assistant ; C. E. Morrison, 
Steward. 

On the 14th of August, 1851, the Company purchased a hand- 
engine from Columbia No. 5, of New Orleans ; and on the 23d of 
August were duly incorporated, the following named citizens signing 
the charter: W. F. Gerard, Robert Roberts, Samuel L. Bishop, 
Chas. A.Harris, William Sarazin, Robert L. Hughes, William Morris 
and V^ictor S6r6. 

In 1852, the Company, through their-Building Committee, Messrs. 
Robert Roberts, J. O. McLean and Wm. Sarazin, purchased a galley- 
engine from Rogers «fc Son, of Baltimore ; and February 27th, 1853, the 
engine was put into service. On May 21st, 1871, the Coinpaiiy bought 
a third-class Jeffries Steam Engine ; and is now, with a full roll of 
members, ready for any emergency. 

Brooklyn No. 2. — Motto: "To the rescue." — In the year 1851), 
a ship lying at the Brooklyn w^arehouse pier, was discovered to be on 
fire; and, in extinguishing the flames, w'bich threatened the destruction 
of the vessel, the members of Pelican No. 1, who had charge of the 
hose, so distinguished themselves for gallantry, and met with such 
success in saving the ship, that they were rewarded with a large sum 



as salvage. With this money, tliey, on the 29th of May, 1857, organized 
themselves into a Fire Company, entitled "Brooklyn No, 2," with the 
following officers, who were also the incorporators, October 5th, 1857: 
Jolm A. Murray, President; Wm. Hunt, Vice President; James F. 
(Iregory, Secretary ; Jerry Connet, Treasurer; Thos. Milling, Foreman ; 
E. M. Tyler, First Assistant: A. Carraras, Second Assistant: Phillip 
Nicholas, Steward. 

The Company's first engine was a machine purchased from 
Pho?nix No. 8, of New Orleans. It was used with success for several 
years; then put on the retired list, to make way for an engine pre- 
viously used by Perseverance No. 13, of New Orleans. On April 9th, 
1874, the Company became the owners of a steam tire engine, and now 
ranks with the best in the Department. 

The officers of Brooklyn No. 2, for 1881, are: A. W. McArthur, 
President; M. Vinet, Vice President; L. J. Peterson, Secretary; Jno. 
Lockey, Treasurer ; J. L. Warrel, Foreman ; Wm. Burke, Fii'st Assist- 
ant; Chas. Buhler, Second Assistant; F. Merern, Steward. 

Morgan No. 3. — Motto: "Always ready." — Last but not least 
of the fire engine companies of Algiers, comes Morgan No. 3, well 
representing the bone and sinew of the district. This Company was 
organized July 28th, 1873, and on the 18th of August of the same 
year, was incorporated with the following charter members: John L. 
Smith, Jno. M. Kern, Miciiael James, Patrick Reed, Wm. Sutherland, 
Jos. B. Williamson, Peter Ki'amme, Nicholas Amann, J. E. Blackwell, 
and Bichard Stenhouse. 

The first officers were: Wm. Sutherland, President; Jno. M. 
Kern, Vice President; Jno. L. Smith, Secretary; Peter Kramme, 
Treasurer ; J. B. Williamson, Foreman ; Michael James, First Assist- 
ant; J. K. Blackwell, Second Assistant. 

The Company entered active service with a Button & Blake 
hand-engine, which they used until April, 1874. Then, Brooklyn No. 
2 becoming a steam fire engine company, Morgan No. 3 purchased 
Brooklyn's hand machine. The engine did good service in their 
hands until a few months ago, when circumstances warranted the 
Morgans in purchasing a fourth-class Gould steam fire engine from 
No. 13. 

On the 18th of August, 1878, the Company moved into the new and 
spacious two-story building on Elmire street, between Alix and Eliza 
streets, which they had erected at their own exi:)ense at a cost of 
nearly $5000. The upper-story of the building is used as a meeting 
room and public hall for balls and dramatic and nmsical entertain- 
ments, and is fitted throughout with all the modern improvements, 
reflecting much credit on the skill and capacity of Messrs. Michael 
James, Chairman, John L. Smith, Nicholas Amann, Peter Ki'amme, 
Steven Spahr, J. Leary and J. M. Kern, constituting the Building 
Committee. 

This Company is in a flourishing financial condition, and possesses 
such a large membership that many of the members have been forced 
on the exempt roll to nuike room for active members. The present 
officers are: N. Amann, President; J. Leary, Vice President ; J- H. 
Finnegan, Secretary; Peter Kramme, Treasurer; J. E. Blackwell, 
Foreman ; John Carroll, First Assistant; W. E. Kelley, Second As- 
sistant; M. James, Housekeeper. 

Washington Hook and Ladder No. 1.— Motto: " We raise to 
save." — To complete the efficient fire service of Algiers it required a 



Hook and Ladder Company ; and to supply the necessary want, on 
the 2d of September, lSo<), after several preliminary meetings, Wash- 
ington No. 1 was organized by the following nameil citizens : 

E. E. Cook, G. E. Reeves, C E. Morrison, H. T. Haight, J. F. 
Babin and H. Cruse. The first officers elected were: E. Cook, Presi- 
dent; C. E.Morrison, Foreman ; J. F. Babin, First Assistant; G. E. 
Reeves, Second Assistant ; H. T. Haight, Secretary, and H. Cruse, 
Treasurer. On November 11th, 1859, the Company was incorporated, 
and with a truck and ladder apparatus, complete in every respect, has 
proved itself equal to any emergency. 

The officers for 1881 are : John McCann, President ; A. J. Babin, 
Secretary; Peter Buhler, Treasurer; Wm. Oser, Foreman; T. J. 
Mooney, First Assistant; Peter Clements, Second Assistant; J. J. 
Bertus, Housekeeper. 

THEIR CHARITABLE ASSOCIATION. 

Immediately after their organizations were perfected, Pelican No. 
1, and Brooklyn No. 2, each resolved itself into a Society for the relief 
of distressed members and their families. The great demands thus 
made on their finances, determined them to unite in a common cause; 
and so on the 29th of June, 1858, the "Firemen's Charitable Association 
of Algiers," was duly incorporated with the following named charter 
members: Jolin Brownlee, James T. Holmes, James W. Fitzhenry, 
John Ormond, John A. Magehan, John H. Hasling, Christian Becker, 
John M. Mead, Marcellus Pecon, George Hebert, John Heyer, Henry 
Mohrmann, Daniel Murphy, Laurence Lawson, John Larrieu, Andrew 
Fortmann, C. P. Briel and Philip Schaefer. 

On March 17th, 1872, Washington H. & L. No. 1, was admitted to 
the Association, and on October 16th, 1873, Morgan No. 3 was also 
enrolled. 

In April, 1874, the city of New Orleans— Algiers being now an- 
nexed, — made an appropriation for the maintenance of the Department, 
and June 29th, 1874, the charter of the Association was amended; the 
following named citizens being parties to the contract: Thomas H. 
Jones, President; John N. Riley, Vice President; Edward Quinn, 
Secretary, and Nicholas Amann, Treasurt?r, as charter officers of the 
old Association ; Wigand Klein, William Sarazin, Robert Turner, 
Stephen Morgan, Francis H. Mitchell, for Pelican No. 1; James C. 
Butler, Nathan Chestnut, John J. Pujol, Charles Vinet, Henry Brodt- 
mann, for Brooklyn No. 2; Charles E. Whitmore, Mark A. Morse, 
Daniel Hartnett, Charles Howard, Henry Nicklaus, for Washington 
Hook and Ladder No. 1 ; and Abraham H. Swanson, Michael James, 
Patrick J. Maguire, Joseph B. Williamson, James Wills, for Morgan 
No. 3. 

The Presidents of the Association to date, are as follows : In 1859, 
John Brownlee;— 1860-61, J. T. Holmes ;— 1862-63-64, P. N. Hill;— 1865, 
J. T. Holmes;— 1866, P. N. Hill ;— 1867, A. E. Hotard;— 1868 to 1874, 
T. H. Jones;— 1875, W. Sarazin ;— 1876, T. H. Jones;— 1877 to 1880, D. 
Hartnett;— 1881, B. F. Kelley. 

The first Chief Engineer, W. Brodtman, was elected in 1869, serving 
one year. T. H. Jones succeeded him in 1870, serving until 1872. In 
1873 M. Iver was Chief. His successor, W. Brodtman, served two 
terms in 1874-75. In 1876, by special amendment extending the term 
of office to five years, T. Daly was elected, and has served with zeal 
and efficiency to the present time. 



238 APPENDIX. 



SIXTH DISTRICT DEPARTMENT. 

Prior to the year 18o3, the good people of Jeflersoii City — now the 
Sixtli Muiiic'ipHl District— depended entirely for protection against 
lire on the New Orleans Department. Early in 1853, the Jetfersonians 
cleterniiued to have a Eire Company of their own ; and accordingly on 
JNIarch 31st, 1853, under the auspices of a nujnber of prominent citizens, 
was incorporated : 

Pionep:r No. 1, — and the following ofiicers were elected: Clem- 
ent Brown, President; Willis Pearson Coleman, Vice President; 
Wilmer H. Zimmerman, Secretary ; John Hellerich, Treasurer; T. E. 
Walker, Captain ; John Bode, Eirst Assistant ; Michael Zoller, 
Second Assistant; Francis Heim, Third Assistant. 

Until 1872, the Company did yeoman service, whenever called on 
duty, with their hand-engine. Then, emulating the example of the 
otlier companies of the Department, which had in the meantime been 
organized, they purchased a fourth-class Jefferies steam engine; 
christened it " Lena Schopp," and are to be seen at every fire, battling 
bravely to extinguish the devouring flames, and save the property of 
their fellow-citizens from destruction. 

Pkotkctor No. 2. — Motto : " Deeds, not words." — The rapid 
increase of residences in Jefferson City indicated the necessity of 
another Eire Comjjany, and the want was filled April 27th, 1867, by 
tlie organization of " Protector No. 2," by Messrs. H. P. Phillips, E. 
Livaudais, G. J. Ereret, J. Vollenweder, R. L. Brown, Wm. Weid- 
ner, M. Welsh, Thos. Rickerts, S. B. Allison, D. A. Blanchard and J. 
Theil. 

In May, 1867, the Company bought its tirst engine, the old " Blue 
Box," of Jackson No. 18, and found a domicile in the house of Home 
H. and L. No. 1. Eire engines were then run to a fire by the laborious 
process of "manning the ropes." By the fall of 1867, through the 
courtesy of the Carrollton Railroad, the Company had the use of a 
frame building on Napoleon Avenue; and, in September, No. 2, the 
tirst within the District, introduced a horse as the motive power of their 
engine. " Pat Traveler " proved worthy of his name. 

In December, 187U, Protector No. 2 again exhibited its character- 
istic progressive spirit, by being the tirst in the District to purchase a 
steam fire engine. In November, 1873, failing in several efforts to 
obtain financial aid from the city for the purpose, the Company, on its 
own account, and through its own resources, erected the fine buiding 
it now occupies, on Napoleon Avenue near St. Charles street. 

Much of the success of Protector No. 2 is due to the zeal, enterpi'ise 
and hard work of H. P. Phillips, who was one of its incorporators; 
was Eoreman for seven years, and vacated the position in 1876, 
only to assume the more onerous duties of Chief Engineer of the 
Department. 

The Ofiicers for 1881 are: John C Bach, President; Louis Cor- 
mier, Vice President; R. W. Young, Recording Secretary; J. T. W. 
Mason, Einancial Secretary; B. Mouladons, Treasurer ; D. Wicker, 
Foreman ; T. Michel, Eirst Assistant; W. C. Lowe, Second Assistant ; 
J. Reiiimer, Housekeeper; B. Burst, Engineer; and Delegates to 
the Sixth E. C. A.: J. C. Bach, D. Wicker, T. Michel, W. C. Lowe 
and Geo. Achor. 

YotiNd Amkkica, No. 3.— This Company was organized April 1st, 
1867, by some twenty of the leading young men of Jefterson City, under 



the name of " Young America Fire Company No. 2." But none of its 
members l)eing of legal age, tliey were niiahle to have their Asso- 
eiatioii chartered until the 24tli of March, ISIJ.S. Jn the meantime, 
another Company had been organized, chartered, and adopted tlie 
number " 2." Young America tlierefore changed their number to '' :5," 
which it has continued to tlie present (hiy.— During tlie first years of 
their organization the young men found it hard Work to maintain 
their association intact,— running with a hand engine, and moving 
their liouse from place to place. Nothing daunted, however, they 
continued their exertions, and gradually ])rogressed, until in 1875, tliey 
were enabled to i)urchase the site of their house on Magazine street, 
between Jena and Cadiz streets, and erect thereon a large and hand- 
some two-story brick engine house. Then, they resolutely set to 
work to purchase a steam fire engine, which they succeeded in doing 
in 1879, buying then a fourth-class "Ahrens." The Conqmny now 
own their own house, steam fire engine, hose carriage, and three 
horses. 

With a membership of eighty-six men, the Company, — looking 
back upon the obstacles and trials surmounted in the years gone l)y, 
and feeling that they will compare favorably with other and older 
companies of the District, — are not satisfied to rest on these achieve- 
ments alone, but are imbued with a full determination of reaching 
the highest points of perfection in the fire service. What they have 
done, guarantees what they will do. 

Phillips No. 4. — The residents of the Sixth District realized 
some time ago the necessity of another " Babcock " or "chemical 
engine," to complete the efficiency of their Fire Department. The 
project assumed definite shape on the 21st of April, 1881, when Chief 
Engineer, Horace P. Phillips, and Messrs. W. B. Gill, Chas. L. Kchopp, 
D. Cohn, Clias. L. Voltz, A. C. Winn, T. J. Kammer, A. W. Jackson, 
and several other citizens incorporated a Company, naming it after 
Chief Engineer Phillips, and numbering it "4." On the 25th of May, 
just four days after the incorporation, they were admitted into the 
Firemen's Charitable Association of the District. On the.'Ust of May, 
the actio'n of the Association was approved by an ordinance of the 
City Council by an unanimous vote. Work was then pushed forward 
with a will. The Council donated a lot on Magazine street, between 
Toledano and Louisiana avenue, on which a neat, substantial and con- 
venient engine house was built by Mr. John Cude. The contract was 
awarded in June, and completed July 20th. The Board of Underwriters 
then showed their appreciation of the s])irit which actuated the organ- 
izers of the Company, by donating two imported horses, magnificent 
bays, which cost $200. They were christened resi)ectively "A. C. 
Winn " and " P. J. Kammer." A chemical engine was then borrowed 
by Engineer Phillips from Captain Graudjean, of the Babcock Corps, 
and on the 26th of July, 18S1, Phillips No. 4, with twenty men, 
officered and equipped, was ready to meet the fire fiend. 

In the meantime a new Babcock engine had been contracted for, 
according to specifications drawn up by Chief Engineer Pbillips. Only 
the " heads " were purchased from the manufacturer, and then only 
because those articles of machinery were i^rotected by patent. The 
remainder of the work was constructed after the designs of Engineer 
Phillips, who profited by his experience in ground scraping Babcocks, 
and raised the body of the new engine to a height which will prevent 
anything like such an occurrence, and insure increased speed l>y tlie 



240 APPENDIX. 



big wheels. The wood work and running gear of this splendid engine 
are constructed in that neat and substantial manner characteristic of 
J. Hchwartz & Son, of this city, and are tastefully decorated by their 
artistic painter. The brass work is the handicraft of Mr. Wm. Martin, 
and reflects credit upon his skill as a workman. In short, the engine, 
though a home-made Babcock, is a model of its kind, and equal to any 
in the South. 

On the evening of the 15th of September, 1881, Phillips No. 4 cele- 
brated the formal occupation of their present premises. 

HoiME Hook and Ladder No. 1.— In October, 18.58, a military 
organization known as the "National Guards of Jefferson City," 
decided to disband and form a ''bucket and axe brigade," and 
accordingly a meeting was held at the store of W. H. Zimmerman, 
attended by Messrs. R. King Cutler, John T. Michel, W. H. Zim- 
merman, Julius Attenmeuser, Jules Michel, Joseph Besnard, M. 
Garrigan, Gus. Michel, Marius Lethieque, Louis Lethique, Jules 
Gauthreaux, Justillian Gauthreaux, James Richardson, James May, 
Jules T. Michel, Uriah Virgin, Daniel O'Brien, James Hetherton, 
J. H. Mehaffer, and H. J. Martin, They effected a permanent 
organization under the name of "Home Hook and Ladder No. 
1." and voted to act as a "bucket and axe brigade," until such 
time as they were able to buy a truck. The following officers were 
elected: President, R. King Cutler; Vice President, John T. Michel ; 
Secretary, Jules Attenmeuser ; Treasurer, Jules Michel ; Foreman, W. 
H. Zimmerman. 

About the middle of 18-59 the Company obtained a truck and 
ladders, and moved to a vacant house on Jersey street, between Napo- 
leon avenue and Jena streets, the use of which had been granted by 
Mr. Bovee. 

In 1861 the Company disbanded and formed a military company 
under the name of " Home Guards." They entered the service of the 

C. S. A., as a portion of the Fourteenth Louisiana Regiment, and 
served through the entire war. 

In November, 1863, the Company was reorganized as " Home 
Hook and Ladder Company No. 1," by the few remaining members 
of the old Fire Company known as the " Blue Engine Co.," consoli- 
dated with the members of Home Hook and Ladder who had not 
entered the army. They built the Hall on Marengo, between Maga- 
zine and Constance streets, which the Company now occupies. 

In 1867 the following officers were elected : President, John T. 
Michel; Vice President, Thos. Friend; Secretary, C. W. Brand; 
Treasurer, C. C. Piper; Foreman, J. R. Besnard; First Assistant, 

D. O'Brien ; Second Assistant, J. Gauthreaux. 

The records of Home Hook and Ladder No. 1, from 1858 to 1868, 
were destroyed by fire in the early part of 1868. 

The information concerning the early days of the Company was 
obtained from Messrs. M. Garrigan and H. J. Martin, who were among 
the originators of the Company, and who are still members, though 
long since exempt. 

THEIR CHARITABLE ASSOCIATION. 

On February 9th, 1S53, Messrs. Jno. A. Meyers, V. Leightman, P. 
Blessey, J. Friedle and A. Miller, of Pioneer No. 1, — Jno. T. Michel, 
Tlios. Friend, Z. Imbau, D. O'Brien and H. C. Brown, of Home H, 
and L. No. 1,— W. J. Cooney, G. J. Freret, I. Z. Winn, Wm. Weid- 



nor and K. T. Perrilloux, of Protector No. 2,— and Jos. Berle, Chris. 
Weiss, Jno. Weiss, Wni. Tlionias and C. Auer, of Younj? America 
No. 3, met and organized a Firemen's Cliarital)le Association for .Jefler- 
son City, witli the following oflicers elected to serve until .January, 
18f)9: President, Hon. Jno. T. Michel ; Vice President, P. lilessey ; 
Secretary, H. C. Brown ; Treasurer, Daniel O'Brien ; Chief Engineer, 
Jno. A. Meyers. 

At a subsequent meeting held March !»th, 1S()8, the thirty-fir.st day 
of March of each year was fixed on as the Anniversary day of the 
Department; and from that date has been observed by a parade, in 
which all the tiremen, active and exempt, in full uniform, and the 
honorary members, with engines, trucks, hose-carriages and horses, 
participate — making a spirit-stirring display. 

Tn April, 1S68, the Association was regularly chartered, and sin(!e 
that time has been recognized as one of the foremost tiremen's benevo- 
lent associations of the country. It has been successively ottieered as 
follows; In 1869. — President," Hon. Jno. T. Micliel ; Vice President, 
Wm. J. Cooney ; Secretary, H. V. Phillips ; Treasurer, Daniel O'Brien. 

During this year the City of Jefferson appropriated ?400() for the 
l)enetit of the Association, and contracted with it for the extinction of 
tires during the j'^ear. 

In 1870, the above officers were re-elected, with the exception of 
Treasurer Daniel O'Brien, who was succeeded by Geo. Weiss. 

For 1871-72.— President, Hon. Jno. T. Michel ; Vice President, P. 
Blessey ; Secretary, H. P. Phillips ; Treasurer, Ceo. Weiss. 

In 1873. — President, P. Blessey ; Vice President, H. Liud ; Secre- 
tary, C. C. Piper; Treasurer, Geo. Weiss. 

In 1874. — President Eugene May ; Vice President, J. Bendernagel ; 
Secretary, C. C. Piper ; Treasurer, Geo. Weiss. 

In 1875-76.— President, Eugene May ; Vice President, Jno. C. 
Bach ; Seci'etary, C. C. Piper ; Treasurer, Geo. Weiss. — In 1865, a 
Babcock chemical engine was added to the fire extinguishing appa- 
ratus. 

In 1877.— President, Eugene May ; Vice President, Jno. C. Bach ; 
Secretary, Fredricl^ Geis ; Treasurer, Geo. Weiss. 

In 1878. — President, Eugene May ; Vice President, E, R, Cheval- 
ley ; Secretary, F. Geis ; Treasurer, Geo. Weiss. 

In 1879-80-81.— President, Eugene May; Vice President, R. AV. 
Young; Secretary, Jno. Pertsdorf ; Treasurer, Geo. Weiss. 

On July 12th, 1880, the new bell-tower with bell, on Magazine street, 
between Berlin street and Napoleon Avenue, was formally christened 
" Chevalley Tower," in honor of the then Admin isti'ator of Water 
Works and Public Buildings, Hon. E. R. Chevalley. The entire Depart- 
ment participated in the ceremony. 

In 1881.— President, Eug. May; Vice President, Jno. C. Bach; 
Secretary, Jno. Pertsdorf; Treasurer, Geo. Weiss. 

At a meeting held May 25tli, 1881, Phillips Fire Company No. 4, 
named in honor of tlie Chief Engineer, was admitted to the 
Association. 

FIRE ALARM TELEGRAPH. 

Tills indispensable apparatus has been in operation in the Sixth 
District Department since December, 1879. The system is that known 
as " Ganiewell's Automatic." There are now in use twenty-nine 
Gamewell's automatic non-interference boxes, six gongs in engine- 

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houses, two strikers, one hundred and eight cells, call and battery, 
four gongs at officers' residences, and fifteen miles of line wire. The 
system is separate and distinct from the old City Alarm, and embraces 
only the Sixth District. The office is on Magazine street, between 
Berlin street and Napoleon Avenue. The iSuperintendent is Chi( f 
Engineer Phillips ; the Operator, J. S. Alfred, one of the most skillful 
and experienced electricians in the United States. 

CHIEF ENGINEERS AND ASSISTANTS. 

At the first election in 18B9, to fill these responsible offices, Jno. A. 
INIeyers was selected as Chief Engineer of the Sixth District Depart- 
ment and four assistants were assigned him, as follows : First Assistant, 
J. Eugelbracht; Second Assistant, H. F. Davis; Third Assistant, T. 
Micht'i ; Fourth Assistant, C. Auer. 

On July LSth, 1870, Chief Engineer Meyers resigned and J. Engel- 
i>racht was elected, witli P. Blessey as his First Assistant and the 
remaining Assistants as before. 

In 1870, Chief J. Engelbracht was re-elected and his Assistants 
reduced to three, as follows: First Assistant, (x. J. Freret ; Second 
Assistant, Leopold Berner ; Third Assistant, Jos. Lowe. 

In 1871, G. J. Freret was elected Chief, with two Assistants : First 
Assistant, Louis Madere ; Second Assistant, E. lilngelbracht. 

In 1872. — Chief Engineer, Louis Madere ; First Assistant, J. H. 
Dick ; Second Assistant, S. Rapp. 

In 1873. — Chief Engineer, S. F. Parmele ; First Assistant, F. 
Geis ; Second Assistant, Geo. Achor. 

In 1874.— Chief Engineer, S. F. Parmele; First Assistant, John 
Friedel ; vSecond Assistant, E. Engelbracht. 

In 187ri. — Chief Engineer, Horace P. Phillips ; First Assistant, J. 
Luther ; Second Assistant, J. Munsch. 

In 187(3. — Chief Engineer, H. P. Phillips ; First Assistant, Geo. 
Pelts; Second Assistant, Jno. Munsch. 

On June 20th, 1876, the City of New Orleans entered into a contract 
with the Association for the extinction of fires for three years, at S>18,- 
000 per annum. Under this contract, at the meeting of the Associa- 
tion held June 22d, 1876, H. P. Phillips was elected Chief Engineer ; 
Geo. Pelts, First Assistant, and Jno. Munsch, Second Assistant, each 
for three years. 

In 1877-78, Chief Engineer H. P. Phillips holding over. First 
Assistant D. Wicker and Second Assistant J. Brink were elected to 
fill vacancies. 

On August 19th, 1879, the Association entered into a contract 
with the City of New Orleans to extinguish fires for five years, from 
December 15th, 1879, to December 15th, 1884, at an annual rate of §18,- 
0(10. At the meeting of the Association, held Augu.st 27th, 1879, and in 
a<'Cordance with the terms of the contract, H. P. Phillips was elected 
Chief F]ngineer; D. Wicker, First Assistant; J. Brink, Second Assist- 
ant ; each for the full term of the contract. 

In 1880, Chief F^ngineer H. P. Phillips holding over. First Assist- 
ant F. (tcIs was elected to fill vacancy.— In 1881, Chief Engineer H. 
P. Phillips holding over. First Assistant L. Madere was elected to fill 
a vacancy,— Second Assistant J. Brink holding over. 

CiriEK F]N(;iNKE]i HoHACK P. Phillips, the present efficient 
head of the Sixth District Fire Department was born in Jackson, 
.Mississippi, December 14th. 1847. In- 1865, he removed to this city 



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and associated liimself first, with the well known wholesale j^rocery 
house of Shropshire, Anderson it Co., and then witli that of J. W. 
Carter. In the latter part of Lsiis, he severed his connection with 
commercial pursuits and a])plied Ids literary talent to the conduct of 
the " Jefferson Journal," of which live newsi)aper he was editor and 
proprietor. He was also Clerk of tlie Jefferson City Council. 

When the City of Jefferson was annexed to tlie City of New Or- 
leans, Mr. Phillips i-etired from tiie field of journalism and devoted 
himself to the study of extinguislung fires. In hS7() he was appointed 
by the Board of Underwriters as Inspector of the Hixtli District, which 
position he still holds. In 187() he was chosen Chief Engineer of the 
Sixth District Fire Department, and is now entering on his third 
term, which does not expire until Decend)er loth, 1SS4. 

In 1S79, Mr. Phillips was elected a mend)er of the House of Rep- 
resentatives from the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Wards, receiving 
the lai'gest majority ever accorded a Democratic (;andidate in that 
Legislative District. 

Not satisfied with the high grade of efficiency in which he so 
ably assisted in raising his Department, Mr. Phillips, after three 
yeaVs of labor, succeeded in establishing a successful system of Fire 
Alarm Telegraph, described elsewhere, and of which he was a])pointed 
Superintendent. 

Mr. Phillips is essentially a self-made man, and as such, has 
earned the respect and regard of a very wide circle of friends and 
acquaintances. 

THE PRESIDENT. 

The Sixth District Fire Department also owes a large portion of 
its thorough organization and effective working resources to the Presi- 
dent of the Department, Major Eugene May. He has served its inter- 
ests long, faithfully, zealously and intelligently ; and the position be 
holds is the best evidence of the e.steem in which his brother firemen 
hold him. As a staff officer in the Washington Artillery, and as 
Recorder of Mortgages, Major May is equally attentive to and eflacient 
in the discharge of responsible duties as at the head of the Sixth Dis- 
trict Fire Companies and their Charitable Association. 



SEVENTH DISTRICT DEPARTMENT. 

In the early part of the year 1849 a number of enterprising citizens 
of Carrollton deternuned to organize a Fire Company, and immedi- 
ately set to work upon their self-imposed task. 

They met with more success than they had anticipated and ere 
long Carrollton Fire Company No. 1 was thoroughly organized. 
Ed. Mitchel was elected President ; S. S. Kerncr, Secretary ; F. Schu- 
ler, Treasurer; Henry Diebel, Foreman, and Jacob Sax, Steward. 
The Company prospered and strengthened, and some years ago pur- 
chased a Jeffries steam fire engine, which they are now using. 

This Company has now sixty-five members in good standing on 
the rolls, and is officered as Ibllows : President, H. Weidie ; Vice 
President, A. Spiess ; Secretary, G. Geier ; Treasurer, H. Lochte ; 
Foreman, P. Herman ; First Assistant, T. Helwick. Delegates to 
F. C. A. : H. Lochte, A. Blume, J. Rodgers, J. Felldheim, P. 
Herman. 

On the 18th January, 1854, Star Hook and Ladder Company 




No. 1 was organized and the following Officers elected : W. J. .Starts, 
President : Joe Burrows, Vice President ; P. Bouliar, Secretary ; L. 
A. Heaton, Treasurer; J. C- Wilson, Foreman; Geo. Herrle, First 
Assistant ; A. C. Ives, Second Assistant, and M. Dennison, Steward.— 
Notwitlistunding many drawbacks experienced by this Company, 
and the heavy expenses necessary for its maintenance, it has main- 
tained its efficiency, and is at present in excellent working condition : 
Imving 125 members on the roll ; a fine truck built by Schwartz, of 
this city; and the following officers : P. Bucher, Foreman ; B. Deibel, 
First Assistant ; A. Faber, Second Assistant ; J. G. Dexheimer, Presi- 
dent; Joseph Fritz, Vice President; L. Gardon, Treasurer; L. LeBre- 
ton. Secretary ;— Delegates to F. C. A.: S. Oesterly, O. Besancon, Thos. 
L. Preston, J. G. Dexheimer and A. Hady. 

Following the example set by their"elders, a number of the Car- 
rollton young men met on the 5th March, 1864, and organized Inde- 
pendent J'lRE COMPANY No. 2. Mr. John Davenport was elected 
President; James Hamilton, Vice President : Frank Prechter, Secre- 
tary ; Mitchel, Treasurer; A. S. Firth, Foreman; Phil Mitchel, 

First Assistant; Paul St. Pierre, Second Assistant, and Jacob Baker, 
Steward. On the 11th February, 1865, this Company was incorpor- 
ated, thus completing its organization.— Like most "fire companies, 
they first used a hand engine, but now have a fine "crane neck Gould 
steamer." Their roll of members is very large, and they are officered 
as follows : J. J. Walsh, President ; G. Humphries, Vice President ; 
P. Mitchel, Treasurer; John Miller, Secretary; G. Doody, Foreman; 
Chas. Mork, Second Assistant, and Henry Strubhr, First Assistant 
Foreman. 

While these organizations were being effected, the Town of Carroll- 
ton was made a part of the City of New Orleans by Legislative act, 
and called the Seventh District. The District Fire Companies, through 
their Delegates, then agitated the subject of an Association, and on the 
18th day of March. 1865, the Firemen's Charitable Association 
OF THE Seventh District was organized, with the following charter 
members : F. C Zeller, S. Kerner, H. Tebbe, A. S. Ferth, J. Daven- 
port, John Mehlhop, A. H. M. Peterson, J. Hamilton, and Frank 
Prechter. The present Officers of the Association are : P. Mitchel, 
President; J. J. Walsh, Vice President; H. Tebbe, Treasurer; H. 
Hoey, Secretary ; Geo. Geier, Chief Engineer, and P. Philips, A. 
Smith, and A. Arbo, Assistant Engineers. 



FIFTH COMPANY, WASHINGTON ARTILLERY. 

Major Walton, when the Washington Artillery Battalion left for 
Virginia, ordered First Lieutenant W. 1. Hodgson, of the Fourth 
Company, to remain in New Orleans on recruiting service. With the 
twenty reserves left liini, Lieut. Hodgson rapidly organized the 
"Fifth Company," with one hundred and fifty names on the rolls 
and olfi(Hn-ed as follows : Captain, W. I. Hodgson; First Lieutenant', 
Tlieo. A. James ; Junior First Lieutenant, R. Banister; Second Lieut- 
enant, Jerry G. Pierson ; Junior Second Lieutenant, E. L. Hews. 
Tlie Company put tiie dilapidated arsenal on Girod street in tenanta- 
l)Ie order, and organized a full battery and company equipment; guns, 



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caissons, harness, etc. Durin<^' the first year of the Avnr they regularly 
sent reinforcements and supplies to the (.'oin panics in Virginia. 

In February, 1862, at (-apt. Hodgson's re(iuest, (Jen. E. L. Tracy 
ordered an election of officers for active service in the field. The 
i-esult is given further on. -On the 1st of March, 1K(!2, Gen. Beaure- 
gard's call, from Jackson, Tenn., for equipped troops, for ninety days, 
appeared in the city papers. The next day, Captain Hodgson called a 
meeting of the Company, who unanimously offered their services " for 
ninety days, or the war." The Company was mustered into service by 
Lieut. P\ "C. Zacharie, of Gen. Mansfield Lovell's stati", on March 6th, 
in Lafayette Square, On the 7th, they attended divine service in Dr. 
Palmer's church and heard an eloquent address. And on Saturday, 
March 8th, 1862, they left by the Jackson Railroad for the seat of 
war in Tennessee, with a battery of six brass pieces and all other 
equipments complete, furnished without any expense to the Confed- 
erate government. 

After drilling in camp, near Ctrand Junction, Tenn., until the end 
of March, the ('ompany marched to Corinth, and were attached to 
Gen. Patton Anderson's Brigade, Ruggles' Division, Bragg's Army 
Corps. 

The Company left New Orleans to join Beauregard with one hun- 
dred and fifty-six rank and file, and officered as follows : 

Captain, W. Irving Hodgson : First Lieutenant, Cuthbert H. Slo- 
comb ; Junior First Lieutenant, W. C. D. Vaught ; Second Lieuten- 
ant, Edson L. Hews ; Junior Second Lieutenant, J. A. Chalaron ; Sur- 
geon, J. C. Legar6. 

The Company distinguished itself during the two days' battle at 
Shiloh. Capt. Hodgson resigned at the end of the ninety days, Lieut. 
Slocomb succeeding him ancl remaining in command vmtil the end of 
the war. 

The difterent officers during the company's service from March, 
1862, on, were: Captains : W. T. Hodgson, Cuthbert H. Slocomb.— i^iV.s^^ 
Lieutenants: W. C- D. Vaught, Edson L. Hews, J. A. Chalaron: 
—Second Lieutenants: Edson L. Hews, J. A. Chalaron, J. M. Seixas, 
A. J. Leverich, Thos. M.Blair, Chas. G. Johnsen. — Surgeons: J.Cecil 
Legar6, Stanhope P. Breckinridge, L. Froem, W. Isard Buell.— 
Orderly Sergeants: A. Gordon Bakewell, A. J. Leverich, John 
Bartley. — Bugler : Carl Valanconi. 

Non-Commissioned Officers and Privates :- -Who left New Orleans 
with the Command, or joined afterwards — A. Armant, J.W. Anthony, 
Jno. R. Anderson, F. Arroyo, A. Arroyo, C Arroyo, Jas. Adams, Thos. 
Arnold, W. L. Bruce, Geo. C. Brown, Alfred Belanger, H. J. Boatner, 
Jno. F. Butts, Thos. L. Bayne, Geo. Bein, Jessie A. Bryan, C. P. Bailey, 
A. H. Baker, Jas. Bayle, C- Benson, A. T. Bennett, Jr., D. Belsom, 
Jno. T. Beggs, F. Belsom, Jos. Belsom, Jr., J. J. Boudreaux, L. D. 
Brindley, A. W. Brewerton, A. Barrail, Jas. L. Browning, Jno. Berry, 
A. H. Brevard, Leon Brocard, Wm. Blackwell, A. D. Barrow, C. J. 
Barrow, F. Burrows, Jas. Byrnes, P. Clere, A. J. Chalaron, Henry 
Chalaron, D. H. Covey, M. Campbell, A. Collins, E. P. Cottraux, J. D. 
F. Carpenter, Jno. Clayton, N. Commandeur, W. W. Clayton, C. C. 
Cotting, S. A. B. Cotting, F. M. Converse, G. W. Crawford, Phil. 
Capon, Paul Conrad, John W. Demeritt, Jas. L. Daigle, J. M. Davidson, 
J. W. Dabney, Chas. Daniels, S. J. Davis, Armant Delery, Anatole 
Delery, Martin F. Duggan, J. B. Downing, L. M. Doherty. L. Dapre- 
mont, Wm. Dooley, S. H. Eldridge, G. D. Etter, J. A. Elfer, P. W. 



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Engman, M. Eastman, P H. Flood, Jno. Freiler, Henry Ferand, 
(t J. Freret, R. W. Frazer, Jno. Fitzgerald, D. J. Fitzwilliams, M, 
Fox, C. N- False, Ben. H. Green, Jr., K. C. Giflen, Wm. B. Giff'en, 
Fred. Goodwyn, Wnj. Golnier, A. Gaines, J. F. Gomez, Henry Gordon, 
Geo. Giles, Jno. Gillespie, M. Greenwood, P. P. Greenwood, 8. Galpin, 
F. H. Galpin, C. J. Harnett, G. W. Hamilton, >S. Higgins, J. H. Hauey, 
W. B. Hay ward, Curtis Holmes, F. Hyde, Hy. Hardy, V. Henderson, 
F. B. Hull, J. B. Hazard, M. Hayes, Andy Hopkins, Octave Hopkins, 
W. H. Hall, Wm. Harrison, Jno. R. Kent, L. M. Kennett, Jr., Thos. 
Keheo, Pat. Keyes, J. M. Lamare, John Leary, C. A. Levie, Pat. Long, 
Henry Logan, Geo. H. Law, H. H. Lonsdale, Oscar F. Legar^, Henry 
Leverich, L. Macready, P. A. McDonald, J. R. Murray, Thos. Mc- 
Donald, H. J. Marks, W. P. Martin, B. Van Maas, Jno. Miller, M. 
Martin, E. J. Mcllhenny, Milton McKnight, Henry Miller, Herman 
Meader, Jno. McCormaek, Jno. Metzler, Fred. Morel, Wm. Mathes, 

B. R. Miller, Wm. McGregor, R. McMillan, H. M. McNair, L. 
Marquette, Robt. Murray, Geo. Nish, W. J. Newman, S. B. New- 
man, Jr., H. V. Ogden, Wallace Ogden, Jno. O'Dounell, Jno. 

Ponder, C. R. Percy, Philips, Geo. W. Pugh, J. E. Pugh, 

Roht. Pugh, K. Robertson, Alphonse Rost, E. F. Reichert, D. A. 
liice, E. Rickets, W. H. Richards, Pat. Ryan, Sam. F. Russell, Jno. W. 
Read, E. Ruffier, F. L. Richardson, W. S- E. Seevy, W. W. Sewell, 
P. D. Stephenson, W. B. Stuart, M. Sheridan, J. H. Simmons, Jno. B. 
Sebastian, Lewis Seibrecht, D. H. Scruggs, Benj. Stakeman, Robert 
Strong, Andy Swain, Wm. Steven, C. Staub, Jr., Fred. N. Thayer, 
E. Turpin, W- F. Tutt, F. M. Thompson, R. Vinson, Louis Vincent, 
E. J. Virtue, J. Veeque, Jules Webre, Jno. A. Walsh, Chris. Wild, G. 
Walker, F. W. Wood, E.H. Weingate, T, J. White, Jno. G. White, 
W. A. Woods, John M. Watson, Robert J. W^atson, R. L. Wheatley, 

C. S. Wing, T. B. Winston, Jas. Williams, Morris Williams, J. H. 
Young.— ^^so.- Alex. Allain, V. F. Allain, T. C. Allen, C. A. Adams, 
John Abbott, W. A. Barstow, N. Buckner, Jos. Banfil, Ben. Bridge, 
A. Bayden, A. J. Blaffer, John Boardman, M. J. Beebe, C. B. Broad- 
well, W. N. Calnies, E. Chai'les, Jas. Clarke, J. T. Crawford, H. C 
Campbell, Joseph Denegre, J. H. Duggau, John Devereux, Henry 
Day, Jas, R. Daley, A. M. Fahenstock, E. C. Feinour, E. Fehrenbach, 
John Eraser, Chas. W. Fox, W. A. Freret, R. Farrell, M. Farrel, Robt. 
Gibson, Jas. F. Gifieu, Geo. Gillan, Fred, Holmes, C. M, Harvey, W. 

D. Henderson, H. L. Henderson, Jno. B. Humphreys, P. Hanly, John 
Haynes, J. H. H, Hedges, Jno, J, Jamison, W, A. Jourdan, C. B. 
Jones, James Jordan, Gabriel Kaiser, W, B. Krumbharr, Minor Ken- 
ner, Jr., Pat. Kelly, J. S. Kalaghan, H. Leckie, L. L. Levy, Thos. 
Lacy, Martin Mathis, Lewis Mathis, H. G. Mather, E. Mussina, 
Eugene May, H. D. MeCown, D. C Miller, W. R. Murphy, F. Maillieu, 
Daniel Moore, H. McCormick, Robert Norris, E, J. O'Brien, Bernard 
O'Sullivan, Emmett Putnam, G. W. Palfrey, Richard L. Pugh, D. W. 
Smith, J.H.Smith, J. F. Spearing, G.W. Skidmore, Geo, H, Shotwell, 
R. P. Salter, J. H. Scott, J. T. Skillman, John Slaymaker, Warren 
Stone, Jr., R. W. Simmons, A. Sambola, John Singin, Dan. Shillin, 

E. K. Tisdale, Hiram Tomlin, Geo. A. Turner, Wm. Tynan, J. M. 
Wolfe, A. S.Winston, C. Weingart, Jas. White, J. A. Walsh, Chas. B. 
Watt, Chas. Withau, Willis P. Williams, Wm. White, Thos. Williams. 

Assigned to the Battery, and serving with it at various times during 
the war: Wm. Casey, Jacob Froye, J. Leahy, Pat, Lacey, Pat, Man- 
iiion, S. Myers, D, H, Willis. 



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The " Fifth Company " was continually in active service, at the 
front, in the campaigns of the Army of 'reiinessee. It ])ar<icipated 
in more than forty battles and engagements, ojx'iiing at Shiloh ami 
closing at Spanish Fort, — l)eing in that jxTiod one iiuudred and 
twenty-one days and seventy-seven nighls under tire ; having ten 
guns demolished in battle, in addition to six guns abandoned at 
Missionary Ridge, after being spiked and disabled ; two guns captured at 
Overall Creek, and two abandoned at Nashville, after being spiked and 
disabled. • 

The Company's list of killed and wounded during the war exhi- 
bits over one hundred and fifty names. The death roll numbers thirty- 
one killed in the field, fourteen died of wounds received in battle, five 
died of disease and accidents. 

Capt. Slocomb brought back to New Orleans with him, — landing- 
at the Lake End in June, 18(i5, — about ninety survivors of the 
Fifth Company. He, himself, died a few years ago, in the prime of 
manhood, whilst actively engaged in a large mercantile l)usiness that 
he had inherited from his father. Of genial, simjjle manners, clear 
head, kind heart, remarkably sound sense, strict integrity, untiring 
energy, trained business qualifications and thorough ])ublic spirit, 
he bade fair to be a leader in his native city, as in former days Sam- 
uel J. Peters and James Robb had been. His untimely death is still 
mourned, notonly in the immediate circle of family and intimate friends, 
but by a wide array of citizens who had learned to appreciate the 
young merchant's many sterling qualities of mind and heart. 



COLORED CITIZENS' SOCIETIES. 



• EX-U. S. SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' UNION. 

This Association was organized in February, 1872, with Thos. 
W. Wickham as President, and was re-organized in 1880. — Any male 
citizen of Louisiana, of good moral character, having served in the 
U. S. Army or Navy since 1861, and been honorably discharged from 
the same, is eligible to membership. 

The objects of the Association are: "Mutual aid, assistance, pro- 
tection and advancement of its members, and to give relief to the sick 
and destitute." 

The present Officers of the Union are: — 

Honorary President : James Lewis, late Captain Comj)any K., First 
Louisiana Infantry, Corps d' Afrique ; 

President: Thos. W. Wickham, late Quartermaster Sergeant, 
Twenty-fifth U. S. Infantry; 

First Vice President: J. B. Hnntun, late Sergeant Major, Tenth 
U. S. Heavy Artillery; 

Second" Vice President: S. S. Decker, late Sergeant, Eighty-first 
U. S. Infantry ; 

Secretary': A. W. Thompson, late Quartermaster Sergeant, Com- 
pany K, Fortieth U. S. Infantry ; 

Recording Secretary : Edward Jackson, late Private, Company K, 
First U. S. Infantry ; 



Treasurer: C F. Brown, late Sergeant, Company B, Twentieth 
U. S. Infantry ; 

Quartermaster: R. H. Taylor, late Sergeant, Company A, Second 
U. S. Infantry; 

Marshal: "Richard Sheppard, late Sergeant, Seventy-fourth U. S. 
Infantry ; 

Deputy Marshal : J. C. Miller, late Sergeant, Company H, Eigh- 
teenth U. S. Infantry; 

Chaplain: Rev. Wesley Bell, late Private, Company K, Seventy- 
fourth U. S. Infantry; 

Physician: Dr. J. T. Newman. 

The handsome manner in which the Society paraded on the day 
of the Garfield Funeral Procession,- is described on pages 108 and 10*J. 

RESOLUTIONS. 

At a special meeting of the Union, held just before the Procession, 
the following resolutions were unanimously adopted: 

" Wherfas, The extraordinary civic virtues of the deceased Execut- 
ive render his untimely taking oflT a loss to be ranked by the side of 
the most illustrious dead of all ages; 

" Therefore, be it resolved, That while we bow in huml)le resign- 
ation to the unseen Hand that directs human affairs, we mingle our 
poignant grief with our fellow citizens throughout the land. 

"That we perceive in the nefarious manner in which our (-bief Magis- 
trate has been suddenly plunged from a career of remarkal)ly brilliant 
activity, into the unknown world, a cause to foster with every rightful 
appliance, the growth and perpetuity of our free institutions. 

" That we will forev^er inscribe on the tablet of our menu)ry the 
name of the deceased statesmen who, with the immortal Lincoln, has 
furnished the world, in his life, the finest specimen of the outgrowth 
of our form of government. 

" That we tender the stricken widow and dejected wife, the feeble 
mother and bereaved children, our deep and inexpressible sympathy, 
in this, the hour of their sorrow and of the Nation's mourning." 



SCREWMEN'S BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION, NO. 2. 
This is the largest and most powerful of the colored labor organiza- 
tions of the city. Its industry gives support to several thousand men, 
women and childi'en ; it is directly concerned in the prosperity of the 
commerce of the city ; and its charity liberally assists those in sick- 
ness or distress. The Association was organized December 7th, 1870, 
and incorporated January 2Hth, 1877. It has now nine hundred mem- 
bers, and is in a very flourishing condition. Its fine parade of strong- 
built, well-dressed men, in the procession of September 26th, attracted 
general attention. The Association was the second in line in the 
Ninth Division, under Marshal Dumont. A list of the first officers 
elected was not furnished us ; but the names of the present officers 
are given on page 118 in the description of the Association's turn out. 

COTTON YARD MEN'S BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION, NO. 2. 

This Society was established through the instrumentality of Major 
Emsley Brower, assisted by Messrs. James Roche, Edward Harrison and 
others'of the Cotton Yard Men's Benevolent Association, Branch No. 



One (whites), on the llthofJiimuiry, 1880. The organization underwent 
many disadvantages of all kinds ;it lirst, hut gradually prospered and 
strengthened, and was incorporated on the otli of May, 1880, having 
three hundred nienihers on the roll. Like tiie white association, it 
was organized to mutually aid its memhers, mostly cotton rollers, 
scale hands, samjjlers, etc., hoth as a benevolent society and as a body 
of workingnien. The two bodies, white and colored, work in full 
harmony. 

The following were the lirst-offlcers of the Association : Major 
Enisley Brower, President; Jos. Valentine, Vice President; Charles 
D- Bowers, Recording Secretary ; Thos. (i. Jetlerson, Financial .Secre- 
tary ; Wm. James, Treasurer; Chas. K. Powell, Chairman Finance 
Committee ; Cyrus P. Spotts, Chairman Investigation Committee ; 
Champion Hayes, Chairman llelief Committee ; Benj. 1). Smith, Grand 
Marshal ; Rev. Samuel Bell, Chaplain. 

At the second election for Officers and permanent Committees, 
held December, 1880, and January, 1881, the result was as follows: 
Major Emsley Brower, President; Whitfield Madison, Vice Presi- 
dent; C. D. Bowers, Recording Secretary; T. G. Jefferson, Financial 
Secretary ; Wm. James, Treasurer ; Rev. John Richard, Chaplain; R. 
C. Johnson, Grand Marshal; Major Polite, First Assistant Marshal ; 
Joseph Richard, Second Assistant Marshal ; John 'Malone, Flag 
Bearer; John H. Thompson, Banner Bearer ; Louis Decourdeaux, Chair- 
man FinaneeCommittee, and J. E. Allen andLsaacL. Brown, mejnbers; 
Joseph Valentine, Chairman Relief Committee; Cyrus P. Spotts, 
Chairman Investigation Committee; Henry M. Strother, Chairman 
Grievance Committee; A. T. Diggs, Chairman Labor Committee. 

The day of the Funeral Procession, the Association delegated 
Joseph Valentine to represent them as a mounted Aid on the staff of 
Marshal Dumont, in whose Division they were the fifth in line. See 
page 114 for a sketch of their appearance. — The Association now num- 
bers some six hundred men. 



LONGSHOREMEN'S PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION. 

Fourth in the Tenth Division, under Marshal Piuchback, this 
Society had all its officers with it, as given in the sketch of its parade, 
on page 1 16. The other Officers not named there are the Trustees : Wm. 
Adams, Chas. Crosby, A. Baker, Samuel Robinson, Gus. Box, Chas. 
Irwin, A. Shields, Joseph Berry, and Wm, Green. — The Association 
was incorporated in June, 1880. Its object is, " to protect its members, 
as laborers." 



UNITED SONS OF HONOR. 

This is a Benevolent Association whose objects are to relieve the 
sick, bury the dead, attend to the distressed widows and succor the 
orphans of its members. It was organized on the 25th of April, 1867, 
and incorporated on the 12th of February, 1868. 

The first Officers were: Robert Robertson, President; Wm. 
Leonard, Vice President ; Wm. Kinney, Treasurer; Edward Wilson, 

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Secretary; Henry White, Trustee; Joseph Welsh, Grand Marshal, 
and Albert Neville, Frank Simmons and Wm. Robertson, Assistant 
Marshals. 

The Society is nearly two hundred strong, and is prosperous and 
ellicient. In resi)onse to Mayor Shakspeare's.iproclamation, the 
Officers and Members reported to him through President Wm. Kinney, 
and were assigned by the Committee of Arrangements to the Eighth 
Division, Marshal James Lewis. See pages 111 and .112 for their 
appearance in the procession. 



MAGNOLIA LONGSHOREMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 

This Society was organized on tiie 2.5th of January, 1880, and 
incorporated on the 14th of July of the same year. The Association 
has prospered in the short Lime since it was founded, and has done 
much to assure employment, to its inembers in handling the myriads 
of freight received and shipped on the Levee. 

The Airisociationjled the Ninth ]Division, under Marshal Dumont, 
on the 26th oti September. The Officers of the Association, besides 
those jnentioned as in the procession, on pagejll2, are: Alfred Jen- 
kins, Chairman of SRelief Committee; J. H. Williams, Chairman 
Board of Trustees; Richard Dunn, Chairman Finance Committee; 
Alfred Claugh, Chairman Investigating Committee; F. Pishon, 
Treasurer ; S. Snuth and John Narcisse, Flag Bearers ; Nathan 
Hewes, Banner Bearer; and Chaiilain, Rev. Felix Castra. 



YOUNG AND TRUE FRIENDS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION. 

This Society was organized; on the"|7th' of February, 18S0, and 
incorporated' on the 14th of January, ISSl. Its first Officers were : 
John Lewis, President; Jerry B. Brown, Vice President; Joseph 
Fabacher, Jr., Secretary ; George Kinzey, Assistant Secretary ; George 
M. Cavell, Financial Secretary; Geo.'D. Geddes, Treasurer; John Rey- 
nolds, Marshal. /I'liey were all out with the'Society in the Procession of 
September 2(ith, leading, as described on page 11-5, the Tenth Division, 
under Marshal Pinch back. 



LONGSHOREMEN'S PROTECTIVE UNION, No. 2. 

This Association was organized on the 29th of October, 1873, and 
incorporated on the 2.3d of March, 1874, by an act of the Legislature, 
signed by Gov. Kellogg. 

'i here are now 4.5(» membersjon the roll. The Association is one of 
mutual aid and benevolence, protecting '.the^interests of its members 
as among tlu; thousands of hard workhig, stalwart men on the Levee. 
The Union was the sixth Society in line in the Ninth Divisioii, under 
Marshal Dumont. Its excellent display there, "and its Officers' names 
ai)i)ear on page 114. 



EQUAL JUSTICE MARINE BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION. 

Second in the Division, under Marshul Pinchback, this Society 
attracted much notice by their neat appearance and elef!:ant banner, as 
described on pages IIT) and IKi. Tlie Associalioii was (triianizcd in 
March, 1S77, and incorporated in July, 1S7<S, its objects bcinj^ of a 
charitable nature. The Otticcrs' iiaines are given in tlie description 
referred to. In addition, tliere are the Trustees: O. C Miller, Ed. J. 
Reed, Philip Papain, and Henry Osburn. 



TEAMSTERS' AND LOADERS' UNION BENEVOLENT 
ASSOCIATION. 

The eiglit liundred members of tliis Society play a very important 
part in the transliipment of freights of all kinds, from and to railroads, 
steamboats, sliips, steamsliips and warehouses. The organization is for 
both Ijusiness and eliaritable purj^oses, and these are l)otla well carried 
out. The Association was organized April '29th. 188(1. The tirst 
Officers elected continued in position in 1881, and are tliose mentioned 
on page 113, in the description of the Association in the Nintli Division 
of the Procession, with tlie additions of J. Glover, First Marshal; 
C- Shaw, Second; and J. Williams, Third. 



L'AVENIR MUTUAL AID ASSOCIATION. 

Composed of representative young colored French-Creoles of the 
Catholic faith, this Society was organized cliiefly through the exer- 
tions of Mr. Richard Learson, aided l)y Messrs. Placide Decou, Jules 
Amand, Mirtil R. Crocker, and V. L'Herriss6. The first meeting 
was on September 12th, 1877, at tlie 'Friends of Order" Hall, on 
Urquhart street, between Annette and St. Bernard. Sixty members 
signed the roll. The members remained about the same for two 
years. At their second anniversary meeting it was determined to 
provide the Society with flags, a banner, badges, and music for parades 
and for funerals, The costume adopted for funerals is described on 
page 116, in the notice of the Association's appropriate and handsome 
display in Marshal Pinchback's Division. I<"or parades the costume is 
black cloth coat and pants, white vest, white cravat, white gloves, 
black silk hats, blue silk badges with gold trimmings and mottoes for 
the officers, and silver trimmings for the members. After its first 
public parade and pic-nic, the Association received seventy -seven 
applications for membership; and at every meeting since, a half 
dozen or more applications are received. No i)rofessional politicians 
are admitted ; it has no honorary members ; and perfect harmony pre- 
vails in the deliberations and good feeling among the members. The 
number of active members is over two hundred. The financial re- 
sources are ample to meet all emergencies, with regular payments of 
dues and a handsome cash balance on hand. The objects are, as set 
forth in the title, "mutual aid," which embraces the giving of j^har- 
maceutical, medical and pecuniary assistance to the sick, and burying 
the dead at the expense of the Association. 



APPENDIX. 



The ])resent Officers, with Mr. Jules Amand as President, — the 
otliers appear on page 117 — have held their positions from the first 
year, or four years in succession, which speaks well for their ability. 



THE COLORED MEN'S PROTECTIVE UNION. 

This political Association was organized in this State immediately 
after the downfall of the Packard government, — its object being, as its 
President writes us, "To solidify the Colored Masses into one compact 
organization for the maintenance of the j^rinciples of the Republican 
})arty." — Its ramifications, he states, extend throughout every Ward 
of the City of New Orleans, where Sub-councils of the organization 
are in operation, and also into every Parish of the State. 

The membership of the Union is estin)ated at numy thousands. 
Among them can be found the. leading Colored Representative Men in 
the State ; and it is rated as " the one powerful Republican organization 
of Louisiana." 

The following citizens have served as Presidents of the Union since 
its organization : Wni. Rodolph, A. A. Maurice, Peter Joseph, Jacques 
A. Gla, and J. Madison Vance. The latter is tiie present President. The 
other Officers' names appear in the report, on page 113, of the dis^^lay 
the Union made in the Procession, under Marshal A. .J. Duniont. 



GRAND UNITED ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS. 

HISTORY OF THE ORDER IN THIS COUNTRY. 

The appearance, in the Eighth Division, under Marshal Lewis, of 
tlie Officers and Members of the difierent organizations of this Order 
here, in the Funeral Procession of September 2(ith, is presented in 
detail and with accuracy, on pages 109, 110, and 111. To thousands of 
the tens of thousands of spectators, the Order was a subject of much 
curiosity and interest, for they had seen it in such large numbers and 
orderly array for the first time. 

The Parent Order is that of the English Odd Fellows, (whites), 
with their Committee of Management at York. The first Lodge estab- 
lished in this country, was the Philomathean Lodge No. 646, opened 
in 184.'), in Philadelphia. In December of that year, this Lodge was 
granteil i)Ower by the English Connnittee of Management, to form a 
Sub-(!(imjnittee of Managejnent for tiiis country, and all the Lodges of 
this (Continent are under the jurisdiction of this vSub-Conniiittee. This 
Sub-Committee is elected bi-annually by the general Moveable Com- 
mittee, which is conii>osed of Delegates from the tiifi'erent Lodges in 
America. 

The new Order soon found favor with the Colored Citizens through- 
out tlie country, and subordinate Lodges were rapidly established. 
'I'liey exist in almost every State in the Union; also in Canada, the 
Pcrmudas, the Bahanuis, in Cuba, and the British West India Islands. 
Tlicrc are over 2000 branches of the Order on this continent, more than 
half of which ai'e in the United States, — including 755 Lodges, 212 
llouscliolds of Ruth, (for female members), sixty-two Past Grand 



APPENDIX. 253 



Masters' Chapters, and nineteen Patriarchies. In the United States, 
Canada, Cuba, and the British West Indies, there are 150, 00(1 members; 
ill England, Scotland, Wales, and Australia, (5UU0 branches, with 
500,0(10 members. 

In the United States, the Order is composed almost exclusively of 
(.'olored men, but nevertheless the organizauon liiiows no man by his 
color, age, politics, or religion. The latest report at hand shows for the 
United States 24,124 members; (iOU Past Otlicers; brothers relieved in 
the year, 23, (j44; buried, 303; widows relieved, 345; orphans relieved, 
210; total amount paid to the sick, |27,772 81; for funerals, |16,130 19; 
to widows, §14125 60; for charity, |4744 72; value of property, $141,001 29; 
total invested, value of property, and in funds, $208,533 70. 

In Louisiana tliere are seventeen Lodges, one Household of Kuth, 
one Past Grand Masters' Chapter and ouePatriarchie.and a total mem-, 
bership of 1154. The Order was first organized in this State by Butler 
Lodge, No. 1336. 

The Sub-Committee of Management for 1881 is reported as follows: 
Grand Master, Wm. T. Forrester, at Richmond, Va.; Deputy Grand 
Master, Samuel W. Chase, Baltimore; Grand Treasurer, C. H. Curtis, 
Brooklyn; Grand Secretary, D. B. Bowser, Philadelphia. Directors: 
A. K. Manning, Washington, D. C; B. F. Gross, Allegheny City, Pa ; 
J. Pennoyer Jones, Deslia County, Ark.; W. M. Hill, Memphis. 

The Grand Samaritan of the Grand Patriarchie of America is 
George C. Mason, of New Orleans. 

The Order in this State is under the immediate supervision of 
" Louisiana District Lodge No. 21," with Anatole Parnelle, at Thibo- 
deaux, as District Master ; A. A. Gains, of New Orleans, as Deputy 

D. M. ; J. B. Gaudet, of New Orleans, District and Corresponding 
Secretary; Daniel Holland, of New Orleans, District Treasurer; J. 
W. Burns, of New Orleans, District Warden ; James H. Lowrey, of 
Plaquemine, as District Chaplain ; A. G. Jones, of Napoleouville, 
District Guardian, and B. F. Hankin, of Bayou Boeuf, as District 
Marshal.— Of the District Lodge Committees : A. Parnelle, Chairman 
of the Executive Committee ; J. B. Gaudet, Secretary; Geo. C. Mason, 
H. C. C. Astwood, B. V. Baranco, memt)ers.— On Appeals : W. A. 
Halston, Chairman ; A. A. Gains, D. Brown. J. R. Lewis.— On Griev- 
ances : Mc C. Campfield, Chairman ; Graham Bell, Thos. J. Hill, 
Joseph LeBlanc, J. H. Bailey.— On Charity, Widows and Orphans : 
Wm. Davis, Chairman ; Wm. James, H. R. Steele, J. W. Burns, C. 
J. Thomas. — On Insurance: L. D. Thompson, Chairman ; O. J. Rock, 

E. J. Brunet.— On Finance and Auditing: Chas. B. Wilson, of New 
Orleans, Chairman; Charles A. Roxborough, Arthur H. Colwell. 

The following Lodges and other branches of the Order are located 
in New Orleans : Butler Lodge, Amos Lodge, Emblem of Progress 
Lodge, Pride of Louisiana Lodge, Good Intent Lodge, O. J. Dunn 
Lodge, Crescent Lodge, Magnolia Lodge, Israel Lodge, Pride of Jef- 
ferson Lodge, and La Crfiole Lodge,— Moab Household of Ruth No. 
36,— Past Grand Master's Council No. 30,— Orleans Patriarchie No. 7,— 
And State District Lodge No. 21. 

SOME OF THE LODGES. ' 

Emblem of Progress Lodge, No. 1507, was organized in New 
Orleans, September 10th, 1872, with twenty-three Members and the 
following Olficers: Edward Williams, P. N. G. ; James C. Graves, 



254 APPENDIX. 



N. G. ; Cyrus P. Spotts, V. G. ; A. A. Gains, Elec Secretary ; Edward 
J. Webb, Treasurer ; James A. Cottrell, Per. Secretary ; A. Minor, 
('ba])hun ; Huzeiiie Pepp, Conductor; H. Banks, I. G. ; G. Hill, O. ({. 
This Lodge was instrumental in establishing the Order through- 
out the State ; also in calling into existence Past Grand Masters Coun- 
cil JN'o. 80, Houseliold of Ruth No. 86, and Orleans Patriarchie No. 7. — 
The membership is now 135. Within the last nine years the Lodge 
has expended over $12,000 lor funerals and in charitable purposes, and 
is now erecting a beautiful tomb in Washington Cemetery No. 2. The 
value of the Lodge property amounts to $1750. " Emblem of Progress " 
had the honor of having the tirst Grand Master for the State elected 
from her members, and is the only Lodge in the State that had one of 
its members, E. J. Holmes, a member elect of the Sub-Committee of 
Management for America. This Lodge is still progressing, -as its 
name implies. 

Pkidk of Louisiana, No. 1529, was installed May 12th, 1878, with 
Yorick Campbell as P. N. G. ; Geo. C. Mason, N. G. ; Charles H. 
Cripps, V. G. ; L. Lamaniere, Per. Secretary ; E. E. Smith, Elec. Secre- 
tary ; Allen Luster, Chaplain ; David Johnson, Treasurer ; D.Gibson, 
I. G. ; J.H. Grinnell, O. G. ; S. Ratclitt", Warden; H. Hicks, Con- 
ductor ; W. E,. Boyd, E,. S. to N. G. ; J. Lavigne, Jr., L. S to N. G- ; 
E. Jackson, R. S. to V. G. ; C. J. Thomas, L. S. to V. G. 

Crescent Lodge, No. 1646, was organized December 22d, 1874, 
and has now a membership of 115. The warrant Ofticers were: Wm. 
James, P. N. G. ; Samuel Bell, Chaplain; L. P. Henderson, Elec. 
Secretary; Thomas Johnson, Per. Secretary; George Middleton, 
Treasurer; Wm. H. Nicholson, V. G. ; Louis Bright, N. G. ; John 
Lewis, N. F. ; James Weaver, I. G. ; R. Harris, Warden. During the 
year 1881 the Lodge expended |907 54 for sick reliefs, for widows and 
ori^hans, and for charity. 

These are the only Lodges that responded to our Circular of 
Inquiry. 

PRELIMINARY MEETING. 

The parade of the Order on Monday, September 26th, was the 
result of an order issued on Saturday morning, September 24th, by 
Anatole Parnelle, District Master; A. A. Gains, Deputy District 
Master ; George G. Mason and H. C. C. Astwood, of the District Execu- 
tive Committee— through J. B. Gaudet, District and Corresponding 
Secretary — for all the officers and members under their jurisdiction, to 
assemble that evening at the Hall, No. 118 Carondelet street and make 
suitable arrangements to participate in the public obsequies "in 
honor of the lamented Chief Magistrate of the nation." 

RESOLUTIONS OF CONDOLENCE. 

At the meeting a Committee was appointed, composed of J. C 
Graves, McC. Campfield, Geo. C. Mason, M. R. Nicholas, Wm. Dunn, 
J. H. Taper, H. R. Steele, Ed. S. Halsey, S. Holden, E. Parker and 
CJlias. B. Wilson,— the latter as Chairman, — to report appropriate 
Resolutions. The.se were adopted unanimously, as follows : 

" Whereat': In view of the loss our country has sustained by the 
" death of James Abram Garfield, late President of the United 
" States, and of the still heavier loss sustained by those who were near- 



APPENDIX. 



est and dearest to him; and being desii-oii.s of testifyiiif^ our n-speet for 
his memory, and our earnest and aflectionate sympathy with tlie 
househoUl deprived of its eartliiy liead ; tlierefore 

'' Be itrcHoivrd, Tliat we tenderly condole with the family of our 
martyred President in their hour of trial and alUiction ;"and we 
devoutly commend^l^them |to^the keeping of Him who looks with 
pitying eye upon the Widow and the Fatlierless. 

" Resolved, That we accept the invitation of Ills honor, Mayor 
Shaksi^eare, to participate in the ifuneral procession on Monday, 
September 26th, in memory of our departed President. 

" Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be transmitted to the 
Family of the Deceased, and to the Secretary of State, at Washington, 
as a token of our respect and veneration for" tlie Christian character 
of a good man, who, being amiable, won all : intelligent, charmed 
all; fervent, loved all ; and dead, saddened all." 



LOUISIANA AND GARFIELD. 

Gov. L. A. WiLTZ died a few weeks after President Garfield. 

Gov. S. D. McEneby, in his opening message to the Legislature, 

in December, 1881, well said what his regretted predecessor would have 

said, of the sorrow of the People of Louisiana at the tragic fate of their 

President. Gov. McEnery thus wrote: 

" There was a general confidence among the people that his admin- 
istration would be conservative, just and impartial; and its termina- 
tion was looked forward to with anxious hopes, that with it would 
cease all sectional animosities, and that one section of the Union 
would no longer traduce the other, solely for the purpose of acquiring 
political power and dominion. It was this belief, which had grown 
and strengthened each day as his administration progressed, that 
caused the people of this State, in every city, town, village and 
hamlet, to give expressions of genuine sorrow and grief at his 
untimely death." 



CLOSING REMARKS. 

There are, of course, — despite the utmost, care in compilation, proof-reading, 
and revising, — several errors of number, of initials or single letters in names, or of 
titles, in this book. Only a few, however, require special correction. The name, 
for example, of Hon. Mr. Bower, the amiable chief clerk of the Mayoralty Bureau, 
appears several times as it should be; but on page 61 it is transformed into " Brown." 
And on page 81 the width of the superb funeral car is given as " twenty," instead of 
"twelve feet."— The only excuse for such errors is that ancient but excellent one 
concerning "accidents" and "best regulated families." 

The hearty thanks of the Compiler and the Publisher are respectfully tendered 
to the Offtcers and Members of Societies, military and civic, who assisted with 
dates, names and other data, for the " History of the Funeral Proceedings," and for 
the intei'esting Sketches in the " Appendix." 

E. C. WHARTON, Compiler. AL. DONNAUD, Publisher. 



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